Indonesia calls for more G20 action on climate change

Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar greeting China’s Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment Zhao Yingmin upon his arrival for the G20 Joint Environment and Climate Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on Aug 31, 2022. - Reuters

BALI (AFP): Group of 20 chair Indonesia warned environment officials from the world's leading economies Wednesday (Aug 31) they must act together to combat a warming planet or risk plunging it into "uncharted territory".

The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.