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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Sara Sneath in New York and Oliver Milman

World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño

A man in front of a microphone, with an image of a flooded area behind him
Anthony Albanese speaks at the opening of Climate Week in New York, on 21 September 2026. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate crisis on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week.

This year’s Climate Week – which runs alongside UNGA – comes after months of extreme heat in large parts of the world including Europe and the US, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record-breaking El Niño.

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