UN Chief on Climate Ambition

Remarks by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the High-level Roundtable on Climate Ambition.

With the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted plans to hold the annual international UN climate meeting - known as the COP - this year, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have announced that they will instead co-host a “landmark global event” on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

Speaking to a high-level roundtable on climate ambition today (24 Sep), Guterres said, “all COVID-19 recovery packages need to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy. Any plan that supports economically costly and polluting coal or fossil fuel industries cannot be called “recovery”.”

Plans, policies and portfolios, he said, “must demonstrate that they are consistent with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”

The Secretary-General said, “resilience and adaptation action do not get the funding they need” and asked developed countries “to deliver this year on their commitment to provide and mobilize $100 billion dollars a year for mitigation, adaptation and resilience in developing countries.”

He said governments “must also remove expensive fossil fuel subsidies and take that money to invest in new jobs for the poorest communities.”

During his intervention, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “humanity was caught napping by coronavirus. Let’s face it, we were woefully underprepared. But for this thing, for climate change, nobody can say that we have not been warned, and nobody can say that we are not now capable of making the preparations.”

Johnson said the Summit will be “a commemoration, a celebration, of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Change Summit” and will provide “the chance for us to look at the year ahead, do a stocktake, see where we are, see how ambitious we are all being.”

The event is being dubbed “the sprint to Glasgow” by the UN. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the UK was slated to host this year’s COP in the Scottish City. The Summit is now scheduled to take place a year later, in November 2021.

The December event will be held amid signs that the world is off-track to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and that a carbon-free economy is long overdue.

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[stephanienewparadigmcocrea]

Your Excellency Attorney General Antonio Gutteres,
Out of the 169 UN Delegates who have offered their presentations thus far, 9 of them have been women...
Male UN delegates to female seem to be about 97% to 3%...
It would be evolutionary and a New Paradigm model to choose BOTH a MALE and FEMALE delegate for EACH country for the UN to balance gender equality and fulfill SDG #5 in ASSEMBLY participation and representation, which could have a higher chance of effecting gender balance, participation, governance, and opportunity both nationally and internationally.

It has been well documented in education, social sciences, psychology, and gender studies the differences of values and ways of doing and thinking that men and women have. Based on these differences, the UN ought to institute SDG reforms in their very ways, models, and methods of engaging and participation at the UN to radically support and institute gender equality and empowerment... This is a simple but infinitely powerful solution that can easily be implemented... I urge you for the benefit of all... Thank you. 🙏💗🌎✨🕊🌈

[humanbng]

Dude give third world.. technology first...you can't expect third world to act like saints by giving up fossil fuel...we are also humans and we need to generate energy.. remember?
And climate change is started by developed ones..so let them pay for subsidies and tech..trigger is there not on 3rd world countries side

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Everything the last 6 months was planned!!!!