{"id":66425,"date":"2024-08-27T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/27\/a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issues-climate-sos-on-trip-to-pacific"},"modified":"2024-08-27T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:01:22","slug":"a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issues-climate-sos-on-trip-to-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66425","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A crisis entirely of humanity\u2019s making\u2019: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ant\u00f3nio Guterres calls for a \u2018massive\u2019 increase in finance and support for the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels<\/p>\n<p>Pacific island nations are in \u201cgrave danger\u201d from rising sea levels and the world must \u201canswer the SOS before it is too late\u201d, the UN chief has warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/24\/pacific-leaders-summit-tonga-antonio-guterres-un-secretary-general\">during a visit to Tonga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, urged the world to \u201clook to the Pacific and listen to the science\u201d as he released two new reports on the sidelines of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands-forum\">the Pacific Islands Forum<\/a>, the region\u2019s most important annual political gathering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/27\/a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issues-climate-sos-on-trip-to-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ant\u00f3nio Guterres calls for a \u2018massive\u2019 increase in finance and support for the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levelsPacific island nations are in \u201cgrave danger\u201d from rising sea levels and the world must \u201canswer the SOS before it is too late\u201d, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,467,874,581,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-oceans","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-tonga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66425\/revisions\/66426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}