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> GENEVA - U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday stressed the importance of legal challenges against "Climate-wrecking corporations" like fossil-fuel producers, ratcheting up his call for the fight against climate change- this time before the U.N.'s top human rights body.

> ADVERTISEMENT. Guterres has previously said that fossil-fuel producers need to be held to account, but pressing the issue before the U.N.'s top human rights body - made up of 47 member countries, plus scores of observer states - raises the stakes.

> Nearly half the world's population - 3.5 billion people - live in "climate hot spots" that are "fast becoming human rights disaster zones where floods, droughts and storms mean people are 15 times more likely to die of climate impacts," he said.

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