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UN chief slams world response to climate change as 'pitiful'
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres./Getty Images
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres./Getty Images

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres./Getty Images

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is racing toward a climate change disaster, and dismissed the global response as woefully inadequate.

He said current climate policies will lead to average temperatures 2.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the end of the century, nearly twice the UN goal of a 1.5 degree rise.

"That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful," Guterres told a news conference.

Source(s): AFP

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