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UN climate chief Simon Stiell warns that global warming will "decimate G20 economies" without unity. "Sidelining climate isn’t a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," he says during his address at the UK think tank Chatham House, London, UK. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations chief urges world leaders to take decisive action to tackle ever-worsening climate change when they gather at the COP28 summit in Dubai starting this week. "We are trapped in a deadly cycle," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says. "The solutions are well known." SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewers oil firms for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron, dressed in a ski suit, arrives on the Mer de Glace, deprived of snow this year, a symbolic visit to begin the ecological turn of his five-year term. IMAGES
Under pressure from the latest alarming climate reports, the international community, including the United States, meets Monday in Bonn with a mission to move forward on an urgent but delicate implementation of the Paris agreement against global warming. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.