U.N. Secretary-General Releases Stark Warning at Pacific Islands Forum
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a stark warning to world leaders on the threat posed by the climate crisis, calling on them to cut their emissions – or face catastrophe. Guterres's comments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga come as two damning reports detail the impact of rapidly rising sea levels on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Pacific.
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00:00UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark warning about the danger of
00:06rapidly rising sea levels to Pacific island nations.
00:10The world must look to the Pacific and listen to science.
00:14This is a crazy situation.
00:17Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity's making, a crisis that will soon swell to an
00:23almost unimaginable scale with no lifeboat to take us back to safety.
00:29Guterres was speaking at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga.
00:33He called on big polluters to cut their emissions or risk global catastrophe.
00:38His remarks come as two new reports have found that sea levels are rising at an unprecedented
00:43rate due to human-induced global warming.
00:47That combined with warmer and more acidic oceans poses major threats to the livelihoods
00:52of people in the Pacific.