UN chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says global efforts to stop climate change have been “utterly inequate” so far and warns that “ point of return is longer over horizon.”

Guterres told reporters in Mrid on Sunday that world has scientific kwledge and technical means to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) enshrined in 2015 Paris climate accord, but “what is lacking is political will.”

Speaking before start Monday of a two-week international climate conference in Spanish capital, Guterres said that “our war against nature must stop and we kw that that is possible.”

Guterres also anunced that outgoing Bank of England goverr Mark Carney will become his new special envoy on “climate action and climate finance” from next year.