Guterres: Climate Action Summit refuses to talk empty

The United Nations Climate Action Summit, initiated and chaired by UN Secretary-General Guterres, was officially held at Headquarters in New York on the 23rd. At the opening ceremony of the summit, he once again appealed to the delegates of participating countries to increase their commitment and action, not just empty talk.

Guterres said he had recently visited the Pacific island countries, Mozambique in West Africa and the Bahamas, the Caribbean island country on the West Bank of the Atlantic, to witness the power of climate change.

Guterres reiterated: "This is not a climate dialogue summit, we have had enough dialogue; this is not a climate negotiation summit, you can not negotiate with nature. This is the Climate Action Summit. From the very beginning, I said that the tickets to the summit are not rhetoric, but concrete actions."

Guterres said young people would provide solutions, insist on accountability and demand urgent action. "Our generation has failed to fulfil its responsibility to protect the planet," he said. That must change." Therefore, on the eve of this summit, the United Nations held its first Youth Climate Summit on 21.

Guterres pointed out that the scientific community has repeatedly reiterated the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030, to achieve carbon neutralization by 2050, and to limit temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. It is possible to achieve these goals. Science and technology will be an important tool. In today's world, more than 70% of carbon emissions have been replaced by technology.

He said that the Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change also provided a blueprint for the international community to combat climate change. Continuing to subsidize the dying fossil fuel industry and building more and more coal-fired power plants will bring the greatest cost.

Guterres pointed out that the international community needed to send a signal to the government and the market to transform to a green economy in order to improve life, work, health, food security and further achieve equitable and sustainable growth. Let no one fall behind by acting together.

"It's my responsibility and ours," he said. Make every effort to stop the climate crisis before it ends our lives.