United Nations secretary general António Guterres has called on all countries that are party to the Paris climate agreement to set climate plans for the year 2035 that achieve faster and deeper emission reduction cuts. Hosting a climate leaders' summit on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, Guterres urged countries to announce new targets to drum up momentum for the global Cop30 climate negotiations in November in Brazil. World leaders at the UN unveiled fresh targets to cut planet-heating pollution a day after Donald Trump called the crisis 'the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world'

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