UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched a brief South Pacific tour in New Zealand Sunday, warning the world was 'not on track' to limiting global temperature rises.
A boy plays in a destroyed banana plantation in Mele, outside the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila, after Cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation in March 2015. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres will be visiting Fiji, Tuvalu and Vanuatu as part of his South Pacific tour on climate change.UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched a brief South Pacific tour in New Zealand Sunday, warning the world was"not on track" to limiting global temperature rises.
His visit, ahead of the Climate Action Summit in September in New York, will also take him to Fiji, Tuvalu and Vanuatu which are under threat from rising sea levels. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, left, receives a"hongi" from a warrior during a traditional Maori welcome during his visit to Auckland on May 12 2019."And the paradox is, that as things are getting worse on the ground, political moves seem to be fading," he added in the joint press conference in Auckland with New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.
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