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- ANTALYA: A potentially exceptional El Niño event could drive global temperatures to another record high in 2027 while the worsening climate crisis is already creating a major public health emergency United Nations officials warned at the opening of COP31 on Monday.
- UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell described the situation as a global public health emergency saying extreme heat, pollution and climate-related disasters were placing mounting pressure on health systems.
- “The climate crisis is now a global health crisis of pandemic proportions,” Stiell said, citing an estimated 50,000 deaths across Europe during northern summer heatwaves and extreme heat exposure among hundreds of millions of people in southern Asia.
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ANTALYA: A potentially exceptional El Niño event could drive global temperatures to another record high in 2027 while the worsening climate crisis is already creating a major public health emergency United Nations officials warned at the opening of COP31 on Monday.
The 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began in Antalya bringing together world leaders, scientists and climate experts for two weeks of negotiations on rising temperatures, extreme weather and urgent climate action.
On the opening day the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its State of the Climate Update 2026 warning that a powerful El Niño was developing in the Pacific Ocean and could intensify global warming and extreme weather over the coming months.
WMO Secretary General Celeste Saulo said greenhouse gas concentrations had reached unprecedented levels while climate records continued to be broken. She described the developing 2026-27 El Niño as unlike any event previously monitored by the organization.
“We have no time to lose,” Saulo said warning that the phenomenon could have far-reaching consequences for global temperatures.
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