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"If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us" - UN Chief Secretary-General António Guterres

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UN Web TV 00:30

"António Guterres...delivers...a major address on climate change...what he has called 'the defining threat of our time'"…[transcript excerpt] "Dear friends of planet Earth...Thank you for coming to the UN Headquarters today. I have asked you here to sound the alarm...We face a direct existential threat...If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us...Negotiations...The next key moment is [COP24] in Poland in December...Dear friends...There is no more time to waste...We are careering towards the edge of the abyss...Our fate is in our hands. The world is counting on all of us to rise to the challenge before it’s too late...I count on you all. Thank you" - Transcript

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