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"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here," UN right chief Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council during the opening its the 54th session in Geneva. Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief added, also decrying widespread "nonchalance" to surging deaths of migrants. SOUNDBITE
Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, Brigitte Perrin, Head of Strategic Communication at the World Meterological Organization, outlines at a press conference presenting its "State of the Global Climate in 2021" report. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification all set new records last year, the United Nations' weather and climate body says in the report. IMAGES
Indian rescue workers are looking for survivors, with the help of sniffer dogs, as they struggle to dig away tonnes of rocks and mud in a choked Himalayan tunnel three days after a devastating flash flood likely caused by a burst glacier in India's Himalayan north IMAGES
Images of emergency workers at a dam in northern India that was damaged after a chunk of glacier broke up and unleashed a devastating flash flood. It killed at least a dozen people and left more than a hundred missing. IMAGES
Emergency workers use front loaders to clear debris at a tunnel after deadly flash floods, caused by a burst glacier in northern India, wrecked havoc. Most of those missing were working at two power plants. Some were trapped in two tunnels cut off by the floods and by mud and rocks. IMAGES
A small group of people gather in New Delhi with placards for a "Fridays for Future" protest. IMAGES
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