UN secretary general: humanity faces climate 'suicide' without US rejoining Paris agreement

Joining China and other big polluters, Biden's pledge of net zero' emissions by 2050 brings the Paris agreement goals within reach'

This article originally appeared in the Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The Guardian is the lead partner in CCN.

The way we are moving is a suicide," United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres said in an interview on Monday, and humanity's survival will be impossible" without the United States rejoining the Paris agreement and achieving net zero" carbon emissions by 2050, as the incoming Biden administration has pledged.