‘Climate crisis is outrunning us,’ UN chief Guterres says at COP31

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the climate crisis is accelerating faster than global efforts to tackle it, as he opened the COP31 summit in Berlin.

He accused the fossil fuel lobby of blocking progress and called for more ambitious climate action.

The summit brings together world leaders to discuss how to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.