UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are failing.
Speaking ahead of a climate week in New York, he urged countries to submit stronger climate action plans.
He said drastic emission cuts are essential within the next few years to keep the Paris Agreement goal alive.

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• UN chief: 1.5°C climate goal close to collapse
• Calls for urgent, economy-wide climate action plans
• Stresses drastic emission cuts needed within few years
• Many countries delayed submitting 2035 climate targets
• China, EU seen as key but slow to act
• Focus on climate weakened by wars, pandemic, other crises
• COP30 to be hosted in Brazil within two months
• Climate summit co-chaired by Guterres, Lula in New York
• IPCC: 50:50 chance world warms 1.5°C by 2030–2035
• Scientists warn risks rise with each fraction of degree warming