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U.N. Chief Sees Climate Doom Everywhere: ‘Floods, Drought, Heatwaves, Wildfires and Super Storms’


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U.N. chief Antonio Guterres warned Sunday climate-related devastation is striking the planet on a weekly basis and global action must be undertaken immediately with U.N. agencies in the lead or else the earth is doomed.

“We are here because the world is facing a grave climate emergency,” Guterres told a two-day Abu Dhabi climate meeting ahead of a Climate Action Summit in New York in September.

“Climate disruption is happening now… It is progressing even faster than the world’s top scientists have predicted,” the UN secretary general said. “It is outpacing our efforts to address it. Climate change is running faster than we are.

“Every week brings new climate-related devastation… floods, drought, heatwaves, wildfires and super storms.”

Guterres warned the situation would only deteriorate unless “we act now with ambition and urgency”, and called for greater carbon taxes, an end to building power plants and a change in the way the world does business.

The U.N. chief held out hope in the Paris Agreement to force nations to accede to climate action as directed.

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The UN's Prophet of Doom.

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