“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Monday 7 November at the opening of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Recalling the urgency of the situation, Mr Guterres said that the current generation was “losing (...) the fight of our lives”.
“Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing. Global temperatures keep rising. And our planet is fast approaching tipping...