"UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told governments to come to a September summit with concrete plans to boost climate action, as he released a flagship report on global warming by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday.

The destruction wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa this month was a stark reminder of how climate change was hurting the planet, he said, describing how extreme weather last year disrupted a growing number of lives.

The WMO report came as Guterres drums up support for his summit to ramp up political will to tackle the climate crisis.

“I am telling leaders, ‘Don’t come with a speech, come with a plan’,” he said to journalists."

Sebastien Malo reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation March 28, 2019. [2]