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COP27: The top quotes from climate and world leaders at the UN summit

'We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,' says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Image: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Kate Whiting
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— Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
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— Joe Biden, US President
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— António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
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— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President-elect
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— Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
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— William Ruto, President of Kenya
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— Sherry Rehman, Minister of Climate Change, Pakistan
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— Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Programme
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— Kunal Satyarthi, India Negotiator on Loss and Damage
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— Archana Soreng, Member of United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
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— Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director of Operations, World Bank
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— Al Gore, former US Vice-President
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— Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname
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— Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister
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— Xie Zhenhua, Chinese Climate Envoy
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— Mark Brown, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
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