Continuing Current Trends Will Lead to Unimaginable Suffering Worldwide, Secretary-General Tells High-Level Round Table on Climate Ambition
(WorldNews China)

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres` remarks as delivered to the High-Level Round Table on Climate Ambition, held today: The world has a high fever and is burning up. Climate disruption is daily news - from devastating wildfires to record floods. The damage to people and the environment is immense and growing. The recent United in Science report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is unequivocal. The past decade was the hottest on record. And concentrations of greenhouse gases have continued to rise. Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and forest fires reached an allâ€`time high in 2019 and are 62 per cent higher than in 1990. We must urgently reverse...