UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said fossil fuels 'must go the way of the dinosaurs'. (EPA Images pic)ANTALYA: UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey on Wednesday that the slow international response to climate change had placed the world on a path to destruction, and that fast action is needed to avert it.
His comments set the tone for two days of rapid-fire speeches by world leaders at the UN conference on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
"The brutal truth is that the climate crisis is outrunning us. This is the path to mutually assured destruction," Guterres said, pointing to rising emissions, global temperatures and worsening climate-driven disasters.
