World needs to declare 'climate emergency' - UN
António Guterres was speaking at a virtual summit on the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement,
Over 70 world leaders are due to speak at the meeting organised by the UK, UN and France.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the year was coming to an end with "a certain amount of scientific optimism" because "barely 12 months after the start of the pandemic, we're seeing the vaccine going into the arms of the elderly".
He added: "Together we can use scientific advances to protect our entire planet - our biosphere - against a challenge far worse, far more destructive even than the coronavirus.
And by the promethean power of our invention, we can begin to defend the Earth against the disaster of global warming."
BBC 12 December 2020
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