BRASILIA:

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned that a 2°C increase in the global average temperature will effectively be a “death sentence for many”. He has further cautioned that global warming would trigger severe hunger worldwide.

As the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) entered its final days on Thursday, the secretary general spoke with members of the press.

When asked by a reporter about whether he considered this COP to be a failure, his replied that it was “too soon to talk about failure”. The conference is set to conclude tomorrow (November 22), with the next COP confirmed to be held in Turkey.

For the Global South, he stated that “the cost for developing countries needs to reduce”, emphasizing the importance of “debt guarantees” to that end.

Before

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