Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, used his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to urge world leaders and businesses to expand their efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. He also called…
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"South Asia is one of the world's global climate crisis hotspots -- in which people are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts than elsewhere," he said on Monday. "As always, those developing countries least responsible (for…
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For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have come and gone. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst? When the world rang in 2022, few would have…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our…
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1- I’ve just had the pleasure of welcoming His Excellency Secretary General Guterres once again here in Sharm el-Sheikh for the last crucial stretch of COP27. 2- The Secretary General’s presence here in the last few hours as Parties strive…
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UN chief Antonio Guterres urged rich and developing nations to stop the “finger pointing” at deadlocked climate talks on Thursday and reach a deal on covering the losses suffered by vulnerable countries battered by weather disasters. With…
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On the inauguration of the Climate Implementation Summit, more than 100 World Leaders gathered at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt to work towards implementation of existing climate agreements. World leaders were welcomed by Egypt’s…
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The UN's climate change summit has opened in Egypt with a warning that our planet is "sending a distress signal". Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was responding to a UN report released on Sunday saying the past eight years were on track…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on Thursday launched Mission LiFE, a global initiative by India to combat climate change and make it a people's movement across the world. Modi said at a time when the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Thursday launched the Mission LiFE movement in Gujarat's Kevadia. On the occasion, Modi said the mission of LiFE is based on the mantra that every small…
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