World Leaders Forum: António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

This World Leaders Forum will feature a special address by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on "The State of the Planet" followed by a question and answer session with a virtual audience.

Introduction by:
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University in the City of New York

*This event will be livestreamed on UN Web TV and Columbia University’s YouTube channel.

Visit the United Nations Climate Action website for more information.

[craigvhenry]

God's Protection

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Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-23 (Deuterocanonical Old Testament)
"The righteous live on for ever. The Lord will reward them; the Most High will protect them. He will give them royal splendour and a magnificent crown. He will shield them with his powerful arm. He will go out into battle determined to defeat his enemies, and use the creation itself as a weapon. Righteousness will be his armour, genuine justice will be his helmet, holiness will be his invincible shield. He will sharpen his stern anger into a sword, and the forces of nature will join him in battle against those who are foolish enough to oppose him. Bolts of lightning will strike right on target, as if the Lord had made a bow out of the clouds and was shooting arrows. Hailstones will beat down on his enemies with terrible force. The ocean and rivers will come rushing over them in a devastating flood. Great windstorms will blow them away like straw. Lawlessness will be the ruin of the whole world. Evil actions will cause governments to fall..."

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[JJpsp]

How about you get to work actually helping the people? Maybe then they would pay you some attention. You spend too much life trying to control and manipulate.

[JUGAopet]

Niice. Still, think globaly, act lokaly.

[gautingmusik]

7:44 begin speech President Bollinger, Dear friends,
I thank Columbia University for hosting this gathering — and I welcome those joining online around the world.
We meet in this unusual way as we enter the last month of this most unusual year.
We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and
new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.
8:19 To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken.
Dear friends,
Humanity is waging war on nature.
This is suicidal.
Nature always strikes back -- and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.
8:41 Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction.
Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes.
Deserts are spreading.
Wetlands are being lost.
Every year, we lose 10 million hectares of forests.
Oceans are overfished -- and choking with plastic waste. The carbon dioxide they absorb is acidifying the seas.
Coral reefs are bleached and dying.
8:09 Air and water pollution are killing 9 million people annually – more than six times the current toll of the
pandemic.
And with people and livestock encroaching further into animal habitats and disrupting wild spaces, we could see more
viruses and other disease-causing agents jump from animals to humans.
Let’s not forget that 75 per cent of new and emerging human infectious diseases are zoonotic.
9:11 Today, two new authoritative reports from the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations
Environment Programme spell out how close we are to climate catastrophe.
2020 is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record globally – even with the cooling effect of this year’s La Nina.
The past decade was the hottest in human history.
Ocean heat is at record levels.
This year, more than 80 per cent of the world’s oceans experienced marine heatwaves.
In the Arctic, 2020 has seen exceptional warmth, with temperatures more than 3 degrees Celsius above average – and more than 5 degrees in northern Siberia.
Arctic sea ice in October was the lowest on record – and now re-freezing has been the slowest on record.
Greenland ice has continued its long-term decline, losing an average of 278 gigatons a year.
Permafrost is melting and so releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are increasingly the new normal.
The North Atlantic hurricane season has seen 30 storms, more than double the long-term average and breaking the record for a full season.
Central America is still reeling from two back-to-back hurricanes, part of the most intense period for such storms in recent years.
Last year such disasters cost the world $150 billion.
COVID-19 lockdowns have temporarily reduced emissions and pollution.
But carbon dioxide levels are still at record highs – and rising.
In 2019, carbon dioxide levels reached 148 per cent of pre-industrial levels.
In 2020, the upward trend has continued despite the pandemic.
Methane soared even higher – to 260 per cent.
Nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas but also a gas that harms the ozone layer, has escalated by 123 per cent.
Meanwhile, climate policies have yet to rise to the challenge.
Emissions are 62 per cent higher now than when international climate negotiations began in 1990.
Every tenth of a degree of warming matters.
Today, we are at 1.2 degrees of warming and already witnessing unprecedented climate extremes and volatility
in every region and on every continent. We are headed for a thundering temperature rise of 3 to 5 degrees
Celsius this century.
12:40 The science is crystal clear: to limit temperature rise to 1.5-degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,
the world needs to decrease fossil fuel production by roughly 6 per cent every year between now and 2030.
Instead, the world is going in the opposite direction — planning an annual increase of 2 per cent.
The fallout of the assault on our planet is impeding our efforts to eliminate poverty and imperiling food security.

[ahmadrezamamduhi]

Dear Mr. Secretary-General, you have rightly spoken of our too big footprint, which is much more than the resources of the Earth, but what about the linguistic footprint? How great is the footprint of the English language, which great powers, i. e. Britain and the United States have imposed and are imposing on the whole world, among others imposed on you personally and the UN? How many years have you frequented here and there to learn English, producing carbon? Wasting books and papers? And now, do native English speakers consider your pronunciation or language use of English correct? Completely understandable? Even today you and the non-native speakrsof the English had problems in understanding each others. Why do not the UN and UNESCO take a serious step towards universalizing a very easy, neutral and extremely small-footprint language, Esperanto? Every average person can learn Esperanto in only 100 hours, while you can't master English well even in 2000 hours. UNESCO twice issued resolutions for Esperanto in 1954 and 1986, but still everything in the UN and UNESCO happens mainly in English! Even if due to the Earth and stopping global warming, please, please replace English with Esperanto. If everyone learns Esperanto, which is totally possible, nothing will have to be translated into other languages so many times (just imagine the huge number of translations in the UN and UNESCO and the trees cut down for the papers used!). I ask you to set up a commission to investigate the subject and compare the size of the English language footprint with that of Esperanto. Thanks.

[romanusbekweniwe]

The protection of the environment is a war we must win Romanus Bekweniwe is train under the helvetas Cameroon natural resources management program NRM based in Bambui tubah council my polling center is GBPS tubah Bambui-Bambili atunwi quarter Tubah council opposite st.Peters primary school Bambui tubah council in mezam NW REGION of CAMEROON geographically located between central and WEST Africa

[romanusbekweniwe]

Romanus Bekweniwe is coordinator of the community based extension initiative group COBEX a state registered tour guide a WWOOF host CAM 02 speaks the Bambui language English French and pidgin based in Bambui tubah council a Roman catholic Christian at st. Peter's main church my polling station of ELECAM tubah is the GBPS tubah Bambui-Bambili in atunwi quarter Tubah council in the Republic of CAMEROON geographically located between central and WEST Africa