Cabo Verde ‘on the frontlines’ of climate crisis, says Guterres ahead of Ocean Summit

How can a country secure a sustainable future if 99.3 per cent of its territory is water? UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday arrived in Cabo Verde, the 10-island archipelago off West Africa’s Atlantic coast that is exploring innovative solutions to help answer that important question.

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