U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has denounced climate change-fueled summer heatwaves that claim “hundreds of lives.”. “We cannot accept a future where the rich are protected in air-conditioned bubbles, while the rest of humanity is lashed by lethal weather.”
Together with his call for climate action, Guterres sent out a meme proclaiming that extreme heat is a “humanitarian emergency.”“I will never forget the climate-related carnage I saw after apocalyptic flooding submerged a third of Pakistan,” the U.N. chiefon X. “I call on donors & international financial institutions to make good on their funding pledges in support of recovery efforts as soon as possible.