PARIS: Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the United Nations said Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are now higher than before the pandemic.

The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Program warned that the catastrophes such as Pakistan's monumental floods and China's crop-withering heat wave this year will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonize in line with what science says is needed to prevent the worst impacts of global heating.

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