UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took aim at the fossil fuel industry at COP31 in Antalya on Wednesday, accusing powerful interests of obstructing climate action and demanding that oil companies pay for the damage caused by climate change.

"The last four years were the hottest ever, and fossil fuel interests keep making a killing while killing our planet. Climate disasters are pounding lives, livelihoods, and economies across the globe, and this is the path to mutually assured destruction. Now, 11 years ago in Paris, the world pledged to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. But science tells us, and overshoot about that level is now inevitable. But science is not telling us to surrender. It's telling us to fight harder. The truth is that we have the power to determine how high, how long, and how devastating that overshoot will be."