Highway To Climate Hell

Despite numerous pledges by countries, COP summits have failed to achieve their goals

- Nidhi Singal

THE MESSAGE FROM the UN is loud and clear. All climate change talks over the next decade will prove ineffective if immediate actions to stop the earth’s rising temperatures aren’t acted upon. The point became apparent at the recently held 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) when UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders that humanity is on a “highway to climate hell”.