António Guterres at COP26 World Leaders Summit:
Dear Prime Minister Boris Johnson, I want to thank you and COP President Alok Sharma for your hospitality, leadership, and tireless efforts in the preparation of this COP.
Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The six years since the Paris Climate Agreement have been the six hottest years on record.
Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink.
We face a stark choice: Either we stop it — or it stops us.
It’s time to say: enough.
Enough of brutalizing biodiversity.
Enough of killing ourselves with carbon.
Enough of treating nature like a toilet.
Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper.
We are digging our own graves.
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