The head of the United Nations warned Wednesday that the 91裸聊视频済ates of hell91裸聊视频� are at hand as intensifies, and top international officials said the world91裸聊视频檚 leaders still aren91裸聊视频檛 doing nearly enough to curb pollution of heat-trapping gases.

They pleaded with major emitting nations to do more.

Those nations remained silent. They weren91裸聊视频檛 allowed to speak because, organizers said, they had no new actions to take.

The only countries that touted their efforts 91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频渇irst movers and doers,91裸聊视频� the United Nations called them 91裸聊视频� were responsible for just one-ninth of the world91裸聊视频檚 annual carbon pollution.

91裸聊视频淗umanity has opened the gates of hell,91裸聊视频� U.N. Secretary-General Ant贸nio Guterres said Wednesday, opening a special climate ambition summit with yet another plea for action. 91裸聊视频� is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease. And thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage.91裸聊视频�

Guterres convened the summit with the idea that only world leaders who came with new concrete actions would get to address their peers on the issue. But leaders of the countries that produce the most heat-trapping gases themselves chose not to even ask.

Heads of state from China, the United States, India, Russia, the United Kingdom and France all skipped the summit. The United States, which has put the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the decades, sent its climate envoy, John Kerry, to the summit even though President Joe Biden was in town. Then the United Nations didn91裸聊视频檛 give Kerry a speaking spot. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom was given the space to speak and tout his state91裸聊视频檚 efforts.

The 32 national leaders who did qualify represent only 11% of the world91裸聊视频檚 carbon dioxide pollution. China and the United States both emit more carbon dioxide than those 32 countries combined. The European Commission91裸聊视频檚 president was also permitted to speak.

91裸聊视频淲e are in the final stages of what actions are needed to preserve this planet and regrettably I91裸聊视频檓 not sure everybody is getting it,91裸聊视频� said Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who called on debt pauses and cancellations and changes in multinational development banks and the insurance industry.

Mottley, a leader of poorer nations struck frequently by extreme weather, lamented that everybody was paying attention to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who was speaking at the same time While she stands in support of Ukraine, she said, climate change is 91裸聊视频渁 greater threat because more lives are at stake globally than they are in Ukraine.91裸聊视频�

EXTRA EFFORTS CALLED FOR

Even though the world in 2015 adopted (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, instead Earth is on a path to warming 2.8 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) 91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频渁 dangerous and unstable world,91裸聊视频� Guterres warned. The world has already warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the middle of the 19th century.

91裸聊视频淏ut the future is not fixed. It is for leaders like you to write it,91裸聊视频� Guterres said.

Guterres called on 91裸聊视频渕ajor emitters 91裸聊视频� who have benefitted most from fossil fuels 91裸聊视频� to make extra efforts to cut emissions, and on wealthy countries to support emerging economies to do so.91裸聊视频� They were silent.

91裸聊视频淭here91裸聊视频檚 no doubt that the absence of so many leaders from the world91裸聊视频檚 biggest economies and emitters will clearly have an impact on the outcomes of the summit and diminish the contribution that many of us had hoped it could make,91裸聊视频� said longtime climate negotiations analyst Alden Meyer of the European think-tank 3EG.

On the same day Guterres called for more and faster cuts in heat-trapping emissions and in spending helping poor countries shift to renewable energy and adapt to a warmer world, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared poised to 91裸聊视频� and go in the opposite direction.

In contrast, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen crowed about how their members pledged to reduce carbon pollution 55% by 2030 and is doing even better than that.

Guterres, a new special U.N. report on the lack of progress in the fight against climate change, activists and some scientists have called for a phase-out of fossil fuels coal, oil and natural gas. But international negotiations keep away from adopting such a big move.

SMALLER NATIONS CAN91裸聊视频橳 GO IT ALONE

On Wednesday, Guterres once again pushed for an end to fossil fuel subsidies, something he said 91裸聊视频渞eached an incredible $7 trillion in 2022.91裸聊视频� The secretary-general criticized 91裸聊视频渢he naked greed of entrenched interests raking in billions from fossil fuels.91裸聊视频�

He called on wealthy nations to fulfill their $100 billion pledges to help poorer countries deal with climate change. The United States is one of the countries that hasn91裸聊视频檛 done so. The U.N. chief also pushed for countries to spend even more than they91裸聊视频檝e promised and put in money to a 91裸聊视频渓oss and damage91裸聊视频� fund agreed upon last year that are sort of payments to help nations harmed by extreme weather from global warming.

Africa 91裸聊视频渃an leapfrog into a fully green industrial paradigm,91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频� Kenyan President William Ruto said. 91裸聊视频淵et we cannot and must not do this on our own.91裸聊视频�

To get there, Africa needs the world to change its debt and credit systems, an extra $500 billion in financial help and a global tax, Ruto said. 91裸聊视频淲hat we need is fairness 91裸聊视频� a fair financial system.91裸聊视频�

A NEW HOPE

Sultan Al Jaber, who will run the upcoming climate negotiations in Dubai, put a giant number on the problem: 22 billion metric tons. That91裸聊视频檚 how much carbon dioxide emissions the world has to cut in the next seven years to reach the world91裸聊视频檚 climate-fighting goal. Then he came up with a bigger number: It will cost the globe between $4 trillion and $5 trillion a year, he said.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of this challenge,91裸聊视频� Al Jaber told the summit. 91裸聊视频淟et91裸聊视频檚 go after the gigatons, not each other.91裸聊视频�

Experts and United Nations reports say the world needs to reduce emissions by 43% in the next seven years to reach the goal set by the 2015 Paris agreement.

91裸聊视频淭his started as the climate ambition summit, and I believe it ends as the climate hope summit,91裸聊视频� Guterres said, wrapping up the day-long meetings.

The promises and actions dischssed Wednesday keep alive the world91裸聊视频檚 chances of limiting warming to the international goal, Guterres said.

91裸聊视频淲e are not yet there,91裸聊视频� he said. But there are cities, regions and companies that are leading the way. 91裸聊视频淚f these first movers and first doers can do it, everybody can do it.91裸聊视频�

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