Fight climate crisis, not each other: UN climate chief to nations

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on Monday opened COP30 with a sharp warning that while the world has managed to bend the emissions curve downwards since the Paris Agreement, far stronger and faster action is needed to avert escalating climate disasters.

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Stiell, in his opening address at the UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, said countries must move “much, much faster”, both on cutting emissions and building resilience, warning that failing to do so will have severe economic, social and political costs.

“The emissions curve has been bent downwards... but lam not sugarcoating it. We have so much more work to do,” he said.