AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues because we love the planet and we believe science. Find articles like this there. UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (Sept 20) will gather heads of state and business leaders that he has identified as taking stronger action on climate change for a meeting.
Countries seen as taking strong
action against climate change will speak Wednesday at a special
climate summit, with the oil-exporting United Arab Emirates set
to take the last slot. .
(Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a climate summit of leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that time was running out to tackle climate change, thanks in part to the "naked greed" of fossil fuel interests. With the two-week U.N. climate summit, COP28, due to start on Nov. 29 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Guterres implored national policymakers to phase out climate-warming fossil fuels.