UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world is in "a life-or-death struggle" for survival as "climate chaos gallops ahead" and accused the world's 20 wealthiest countries of failing to do enough to stop the planet from overheating.

The UN chief said emissions of global-warming greenhouse gases are at an all-time high and rising, and it's time for "a quantum level compromise" between rich developed countries that emitted most of the heat-trapping gases and emerging economies that often feel its worst effects.

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