G20 shirking ‘critical’ climate issues: UN climate chief

Statements by G20 ministers ahead of a key summit are “woefully inadequate” about addressing the climate emergency, the UN’s climate change chief told AFP in an interview Wednesday, calling for stronger action from the nations responsible for most planet-heating pollution. The G20, which accounts for about 85 percent of the world’s economy and greenhouse gas emissions, will meet in New Delhi in the absence of China and Russia’s leaders, as the invasion of Ukraine, trade and the future of fossil fuels stir tensions. Simon Stiell, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said technological solutions are…