New Delhi, July 8 -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a stark warning at the BRICS Summit on July 7, 2025, calling for urgent action to confront what he described as a "moment of profound peril and possibility" for the planet.

Speaking at the session on Environment, 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) and global health, Guterres painted a grim picture of the multiple environmental crises affecting the world from pollution and biodiversity loss to the accelerating impacts of climate change and stressed their devastating effects on human health.

"Our environment is being attacked on all fronts: Pollution poisoning land and water. Biodiversity destroyed at ...