The head of the United Nations called for more and faster cuts in heat-trapping emissions and in spending, to help poor countries shift to renewable energy and adapt to a warmer world

The head of the United Nations warned Wednesday that the “gates of hell” are at hand as climate change intensifies and top international officials said the world’s leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb pollution of heat-trapping gases. They pleaded with major emitting nations to do more.

Those nations remained silent. They weren’t allowed to speak because, organizers said, they had no new actions to take. The only countries that touted their efforts — “first movers and doers,” the United Nations called them — were responsible for just one-ninth of the world’s annual carbon pollution.

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