UN chief warns 'we are losing the race' on climate change

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Last Updated : Jan 24 2019 | 2:10 PM IST

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that the world is "losing the race" on climate change as he demanded that governments make bolder commitments beyond the Paris accord.

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We are losing the race," he said on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"It is absolutely central to reverse this trend." Guterres said he was "not hopeful" that nations would find the resolve but stressed:

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First Published: Jan 24 2019 | 2:10 PM IST

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