Antonio Guterres

Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record

10:52 pm September 22, 2019

United Nations: A damning new UN report published Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster as a result of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending 2019 set to be the hottest ever. It comes ahead of a major UN climate summit Monday that will be attended […]

Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action

1:01 am September 22, 2019

UNITED NATIONS: Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations Saturday to demand radical moves to fight climate change. “We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable,” Swedish 16-year-old activist […]

‘I want a future’: Global youth protests urge climate action

4:47 am September 21, 2019

NEW YORK: Young people afraid for their futures protested around the globe Friday to implore leaders to tackle climate change, turning out by the hundreds of thousands to insist that the warming world can’t wait for action. Marches, rallies and demonstrations were held from Canberra to Kabul and Cape Town to New York, and German […]

UN chief urges immediate cease-fire in Gaza

‘We are losing the race’ on climate catastrophe, warns UN chief

9:39 am September 18, 2019

Washington: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the world was “losing the race” to avert climate disaster, but that greenhouse gas reduction targets were not out of reach yet. He was speaking during an interview with the Covering Climate Now coalition of media, which includes AFP, days before a UN youth climate summit that will […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

UN urges India, Pak to exercise restraint

11:16 pm August 5, 2019

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is following with concern the tense situation in the India-Pakistan region and urges all parties to exercise restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said here on Monday. “We are following with concern the tense situation in the region… We urge all parties to exercise restraint,” Dujarric said at the […]