COP31: Guterres warns of climate extremes

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned leaders at the COP31 climate conference in Turkey on Monday that the world has entered “a new age of climate extremes”.

Guterres urged governments to “get serious” by cutting emissions faster, accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels and delivering finance and protection for vulnerable countries.

He said a “supersized El Nino” was colliding with a planet already heated by human-caused climate change.