Action on Climate Needed Before Time Runs Out: Antonio Guterres

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the Climate Action Summit in New York, warning that immediate measures were needed to deal with this global problem.

"The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win," Antonio Guterres said on Monday, Efe news reported. The UN secretary-general said the time for talking had ended and it was time to take concrete steps to fight climate change.

"This is not a climate talk summit. We have had enough talk," he added. "This is not a climate negotiation summit. You don't negotiate with nature. This is a climate action summit," Antonio Guterres said.

The UN secretary-general said action must be taken before it was too late.

"The best science, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that any temperature rise above 1.5 degrees will lead to major and irreversible damage to the ecosystems that support us," Guterres said. "Science tells us that on our current path, we face at least 3-degrees Celsius of global heating by the end of the century," Guterres said individuals, especially young people, and governments had important roles to play in fighting climate change. (IANS)

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