NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
The prime minister has pledged to triple UK funding to help nations adapt to climate change as he insisted there is still ‘room to hope’.
Rishi Sunak took the mic for his first major international speech after a day of drastic warnings on the world’s likely trajectory on global heating.
The head of the UN said this morning that the world is ‘on the highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator’.
Secretary-general Antonio Guterres told the opening of the COP27 climate conference that ‘we are in the fight of our lives – and we are losing’, with greenhouse gases still growing and temperatures still rising.