UN chief urges 'rapid' emission cuts to curb climate change

The caput of the United Nations is calling for “immediate, accelerated and large-scale” cuts successful greenhouse state emissions to curb planetary warming.

Antonio Guterres warned governments up of adjacent week's yearly U.N. General Assembly that clime alteration is proceeding faster than predicted and fossil substance emissions person already bounced backmost from a pandemic dip.

Speaking astatine the motorboat of a U.N.-backed study summarizing existent efforts to tackle clime change, Guterres said caller utmost upwind showed nary state is harmless from climate-related disasters.

But clime idiosyncratic Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University said the report's warnings disregard beardown pledges and important advancement already made.