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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world is racing toward a climate change disaster and dismissed the global response as woefully inadequate. He says current climate policies are taking the world to a 2.8-degree temperature rise by the end of the century. "That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful," Guterres tells a news conference. SOUNDBITE
Humanity must "cooperate or perish" in the face of accelerating climate change impacts, UN chief Antonio Guterres tells world leaders at talks in Egypt on curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
Appearing at a press conference for the presentation of a key report on the climate by the United Nation's World Metereological Organization via video-link, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the global energy system "broken", urging a swift transition away from fossil fuels "before we incinerate our only home". IMAGES
The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the COP24 climate talks, where world leaders are meeting to flesh out the promises agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord. SOUNDBITE
The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE