World Leaders In NY To Grapple With Climate, Fuel Prices, A.I. And Disasters

NEW YORK – World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are grappling with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and a catastrophic Nepal flood.

Every year as top government officials attend the United Nations General Assembly and business executives flock to New York city climate week sessions, global warming generates lots of talk but little action.

This time two new forces — the rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence and data centers and higher fossil fuel prices from wars in Iran and Ukraine — should change the discussion, experts and activists said.