Don’t Let Coronavirus Distract From Fighting Climate Change, UN Chief Warns
While the coronavirus, known as COVID-19, is expected to be a temporary scourge, Guterres said in a statement that climate change will “remain with us for decades and require constant action.”
The WMO’s new climate report “points to a threat that is greater to our species than any known virus,” Brian Hoskins, a climatologist at Imperial College London and founding director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change, told The Guardian.