Recent reports from the United Nations found the world is failing to meet climate goals, and it could be catastrophic.
Some developing countries are calling on the top offenders, like the US and China, to pay reparations.
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson recently called climate change "bullshit," and even centrist Democrats, like Sen. Joe Manchin, expressed hesitancy with the scale of climate funding President Joe Biden proposed in his Inflation Reduction Act, which ended up including $400 billion in climate investments.
As Politico reported, other countries like Scotland and Denmark have already made small pledges to fight climate change, as well.
"The climate crisis is killing us," Guterres said in a statement.