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 to be the warmest on record.
More than 120 world
leaders are due to arrive at the summit known as COP27, in the Red Sea resort
of Sharm el-Sheikh. This will kick off two weeks of negotiations between
countries on climate action.
The President of COP27,
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, encouraged leaders not to let food and
energy crises related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine get in the way of action
on climate change.
The need for action was
laid bare in the latest report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization.
In his message through
a video to the conference, Mr. Guterres called the State of the Global Climate
Report 2022 a "chronicle of climate chaos". According to him, in the
report, scientists estimate that global temperatures have now risen by 1.15C
since pre-industrial times.
The report also warned of the other wide-ranging impacts of climate change, including the acceleration of sea level rise, record glacier mass losses and record-breaking heatwaves.
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