NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday stressed the need to fight global warming, calling climate change a "crisis multiplier" with implications for global security.

He said this at a press conference in Baku alongside Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, whose energy-rich country is set to host the COP29 UN climate change conference in November.

Praising Azerbaijan for its "important role in supplying (natural) gas to key NATO allies," Stoltenberg said "the challenge is that the world needs energy, but at the same time we have to fight global warming." (Agence France-Presse, More at philstar.com)