Global warming will 'decimate' G20 economies without unity: UN climate head

The G20, the forum comprised of twenty industrialised and emerging countries, cannot “push aside” a climate change that will “decimate” their economies, UN climate agency secretary Simon Stiell warned Wednesday in London. “Covering one another is not strategic” and “push aside the climate is not the solution to a crisis that will decimate all of the G20 economies and that has already begun to damage”, the Greenland leader said in a speech at Cha…

On Wednesday, Simon Stiell called on the G20 countries not to relegate environmental issues to the “background”.

Global warming will 'decimate' G20 economies without unity: UN climate head

UN climate chief Simon Stiell on Wednesday warned G20 nations their economies face decimation and they must overcome geopolitical divisions to tackle global warming.

Without a financial agreement on the energy transition, countries will face serious and permanent challenges.