U.N. climate talks off to tense start as nations feud over damage

By  Michael Birnbaum ,  Allyson Chiu  and  Sarah Kaplan

November 7, 2022 at 7:08 p.m. EST

The Washington Post

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” warned U.N. Secretary General António Guterres , as he opened two weeks of talks, known as COP27, in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. “We are getting dangerously close to the point of no return,” Guterres said.

“Those who pollute the most should pay the most in order to get our planet off this track of climate crisis,” Senegalese President Macky Sall said.