Threat to Arctic region will have global impact, UN boss warns

Estonia's Environment Minister and President of the UN Environment Assembly, Siim-Valmar Kiisler, Tanzanian microbiologist and Acting Executive Director of UN Environment Programme Joyce Msuya and British Professor Paul Ekins give a press conference after the opening plenary session of the 4th UN Environment Assembly at the UN headquarters in Nairobi, on March 13, 2019. [PHOTO:SIMON MAINA / AFP]

As the world strives to cut emissions, rising winter temperatures in the Arctic threaten to devastate the region and cause the sea level to rise worldwide, a new UN Environment report says.