Global solidarity badly needed in fight against climate change

Speaking at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: "We are in the final countdown to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and time is not on our side." His remarks came immediately after a World Meteorological Organization report said that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record.

Without elaboration, Guterres said that supply chain shocks are raising costs everywhere in the world.

To me, his remarks sound like a stern warning to the US for its efforts to bifurcate the global manufacturing and technological supply chains, something that the UN secretary-general has been warning against repeatedly over the past years.