Summit Cup 31; The UN has called for immediate action to curb the climate crisis.
America, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, did not attend the meeting for the second year in a row.
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Summit (CAP31) in Antalya, Turkey, warned world leaders that the slow response of the international community to climate change has put the world on a path of destruction and that urgent measures must be taken to prevent this disaster.
These statements by Guterres set the tone for two days of intense speeches by world leaders at the UN conference on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
According to Reuters, Guterres said: "The bitter truth is that the climate crisis is fast approaching us. This path leads to mutual and final destruction."
"But science doesn't tell us to give up, it tells us to fight harder," he added. "Fossil fuels must suffer the fate of dinosaurs. ".
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are trying to agree on a plan to increase electricity's share of global energy consumption and revive stalled efforts to move away from fossil fuels.
The summit began on Monday as wars, rampant inflation and other crises occupied the political attention of countries, but at the same time more worrying signs emerged about the pace of global warming.
A year full of extreme weather events, heat waves and deadly floods.
A UN report last month showed that the world is on track to exceed the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold. As part of the Paris Agreement, countries have pledged to limit warming to this level in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. However, in 2026 we saw consecutive extreme heat waves in Western Europe and a natural glacier collapse in Nepal. The collapse of this glacier led to a catastrophic flood that killed more than 1,450 people and thousands of people are still missing.