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WORLD NEWS Monday 1 July 2019

UN chief warns Paris climate goals still not enough

Associated Press a greenhouse gas.
ABU DHABI, United Arab "It is plain to me that we
Emirates (AP) — U.N. Sec- have no time to lose,"
retary-General Antonio Guterres said. "Sadly, it is
Guterres took his global not yet plain to all the de-
message urging immedi- cision makers that run our
ate climate action to offi- world."
cials gathered in the United He spoke at the opulent
Arab Emirates on Sunday, Emirates Palace, where
where production of hy- Abu Dhabi was hosting
drocarbons remains a key a preparatory meeting
driver of the economy. for the U.N. Climate Ac-
Guterres is calling on gov- tion Summit in September.
ernments to stop building Guterres was expected to
new coal plants by 2020, later take a helicopter ride
cut greenhouse emissions to view Abu Dhabi's Noor
by 45% over the next de- solar power plant.
cade and overhauling fos- When asked, U.N. repre-
sil fuel-driven economies sentatives said the lavish
with new technologies like Abu Dhabi summit and his
solar and wind. The world, planned helicopter ride
he said, "is facing a grave United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, right, follows the UAE Youth Minister, Shamma would be carbon neu-
climate emergency." Al Mazrim as they take the stage at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate change tral, meaning their effects
In remarks at a summit in summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, June 30, 2019. would be balanced by
Abu Dhabi, he painted a Associated Press efforts like planting trees
grim picture of how rapidly and sequestering emis-
climate change is advanc- accord, but said even if its three-degree temperature decades earlier than even sions. The UN says carbon
ing, saying it is outpacing promises are fully met, the rise by the end of the cen- worst-case scenarios, he dioxide emissions account
efforts to address it. world still faces what he de- tury. said, threatening to unlock for around 80% of global
He lauded the Paris climate scribed as a catastrophic Arctic permafrost is melting vast amounts of methane, warming.q
Sudan's protesters take to streets against army rule

By HUSSEIN MALLA er this month when security The crowds gathered at
SAMY MAGDY forces violently broke up a several points across the
Associated Press protest camp in Khartoum. capital and its sister city of
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The ensuring clampdown Omdurman, before march-
Tens of thousands of pro- killed at least 128 people ing toward the homes of
testers took to the streets on cross the county, accord- those people killed since
Sunday in Sudan's capital ing to protest organizers. the uprising began. At first,
and elsewhere in the coun- Authorities say the toll was the movement erupted in
try calling for civilian rule, 61, including three security December over a failing
nearly three months after forces. economy and al-Bashir's
the army forced out the The marches also mark 30-year rule, and then
autocrat Omar al-Bashir. the 30th anniversary of the stayed in the streets to pro-
The demonstrations came Islamist-backed coup that test the generals who re-
amid a weeks-long standoff brought al-Bashir to power placed him.
between the ruling military in 1989, toppling Sudan's On Sunday, protesters
council and protest lead- last elected government. chanted anti-military slo- Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military coun-
ers. Talks between the two The military removed al- gans like "Burhan's council, cil, speaks during a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district,
sides over a power-sharing Bashir in April amid mass just fall", according to video west of Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, June 29, 2019.
agreement collapsed earli- protests against his rule. clips circulated online.q Associated Press