The Latest Breaking News from António Guterres

“The clock is ticking,” he told delegates at the COP27 climate conference.

"We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator."

António Guterres tells leaders ‘global climate fight will be won or lost in this crucial decade – on our watch’

Funding urgently needed to cope with climate disasters – and to prevent distrust crashing UN negotiations

Rishi Sunak to tell world leaders to move ‘further and faster’ from damaging fossil fuels as UN chief warns of ‘climate chaos’

Exclusive: António Guterres says gap between developed world and poorer countries is biggest issue facing Cop27 talks

António Guterres is heading to Cop27 for what is likely to be another blistering attack on complacency and foot-dragging

Secretary-general warns effects of global heating are outstripping the ability to adapt to them

Following an attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet’s base in the port city of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, Moscow has suspended its participation in the Black Sea grain initiative. This was a deal to allow grain ships to depart safely from Ukrainian ports which was brokered by the UN…

UK’s James Cleverly says Russian president taking things out ‘on the poorest people in the world by threatening their food supplies’

Kremlin pulls out of grain deal after drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea flagship vessel in Crimea; UN and US call on Moscow to reverse its decision