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In Urgent Plea, U.N. Secretary-General Warns of Risks of “Runaway Climate Change”

HeadlineSep 11, 2018

Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Monday of the risks of “runaway climate change,” calling on world leaders to take dramatic steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions within the next two years.

Secretary-General António Guterres: “Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment. We face a direct existential threat. Climate change is moving faster than we are, and its speed has provoked a sonic boom SOS across our world. If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.”

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