‘UN reformer’ Guterres must do more on climate change Published on 20/09/2017, 1:34pm Climate change risks are global and intersecting, so why doesn’t the UN do more to treat them that way? UN secretary general António Guterres (Photo: US Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers) By Camilla Born Right now, the capability of the UN’s institutions to understand, prepare and respond to climate change risks is terrifyingly inadequate. In Paris, nations reached agreement to mitigate against and adapt to climate change. It was an agreement between countries to take national action, but we live in a globalised world and climate change has global consequences. The Paris Agreement was never going to be enough. The UN needs now to task global and multinational organisations with addressing climate impacts of global significance. In particular, it needs to prepare for potential conflict as a result of increased resource scarcity in fragile states, the fall-out of mas...