European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged countries to hasten action on climate change, speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh on Tuesday.
"The global fossil fuel crisis must be a game changer.
So let us not take the 'highway to hell' but let's earn the clean ticket to heaven," she said, echoingIn a separate statement, European Council President Charles Michel said that Russia had chosen to make energy "a weapon of mass destabilisation."Our Standards:
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