UN chief says world in "sorry state" with climate change, Russia-Ukraine war

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the world was in a "sorry state" amid multiple interlinked challenges, including climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Guterres delivered the message during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, singling out climate change as an "existential challenge" and said the global commitment to limit the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5C was "nearly going up in smoke."

He also referenced a recent study that found scientists at Exxon Mobil made remarkably accurate predictions about the effects of climate change as far back as the 1970s, even as the company publicly doubted that warming was real. "Some in Big Oil peddled the big lie," he told those in attendance.

The UN chief called on corporate leaders to act and put forward credible and transparent transition plans on how to achieve net-zero and submit the plans before the end of the year.

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