© Reuters. “We are moving in the wrong direction”: the UN Secretary General announced a new climate summit
| Assaf Golan, Israel Hayom |
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced today (Thursday) a new climate summit in September next year, the theme of which will be ambition in this area.
In announcing this summit, the Secretary General said that
“The world is having difficulty sticking to the goal of an average warming of one and a half degrees above the pre-industrial era. We are moving in the wrong direction, the climate plans of various countries have not been realized, but we do not give up but fight back.”
In relation to the intended summit, the UN Secretary General said that it will challenge the leaders of the countries that will participate in it to decide on “new actions in the climate field that will be tangible and credible in order to accelerate the change that the world needs to undergo”, and this in order to deal with the “existential threat” posed by the climate crisis.
In his remarks about the summit, the Secretary General stated that
“The invitation to it is open (to all the leaders of the countries, AG), but the price of entry is non-negotiable and is a presentation of a new serious national activity in the field of climate that will advance the world in the right direction. This will be a serious summit and there will be no exceptions, or behind-the-scenes summaries, there will be no room for those who blame other countries and evade their responsibilities and there will be no room for the presentation of old programs in new packaging.”
In fact, the main goal of the summit, so the UN hopes, is to put additional pressure on the countries of the world to act in the climate field. This, mainly against the background of the fact that last October many reports were published in the world that showed how close the earth is to a climate disaster.
In fact, in order to meet the goal of warming by only one and a half degrees above the pre-industrial era, the world needs to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030, but in practice the year 2022 will record a negative record when it comes to carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Alongside the pessimistic forecast, if there will be no global change in relation to the climate crisis, the UN Secretary General also pointed out several successes achieved at the last climate summit in Sharm COP27.
He noted the agreement to establish a fund that would compensate countries for damages in the climate field and also welcomed a series of huge deals between rich countries and Indonesia, Vietnam and South Africa with the goal that they stop using coal to produce energy.
“We are fighting back and helping emerging economies move away from the use of coal and accelerate the green renewable energy revolution in them,”
said.
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