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UN climate summit begins with warning 'the planet is in distress'

President William Ruto holds bilateral talks with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. [Hiram Omondi, PCS]

The UN's climate change summit has opened in Egypt with a warning that our planet is "sending a distress signal".

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was responding to a UN report released yesterday, saying the past eight years were on track to be the warmest on record.

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