WATCH LIVE: Day 1 of the 2026 United Nations General Assembly
World and business leaders have gathered in New York for the 2026 United Nations General Assembly. The assembly focuses on climate change costs, rising energy prices, and the human toll of recent natural disasters. Key topics include extreme heat waves, wildfires, and floods.
World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are grappling with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer's oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and a catastrophic Nepal flood.
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