United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that the planet is headed for irreversible “climate chaos” and urged global leaders at the upcoming climate summit in Egypt to cut emissions to get the world back on track, keeping promises on climate financing. and urged to help developing countries. accelerate their transition to renewable energy. The UN chief said the 27th annual conference of the 198 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – known as COP27 – would “reinvent the ambition needed to rebuild trust and avoid running our planet on a climate cliff.” There should be a place to install from.” He said the most important outcome of COP27, which begins on November 6 at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, is “a clear political will to sharply reduce emissions”.
Guterres said this required a historic agreement between rich developed countries and emerging economies. “And if that agreement doesn’t happen, we’ll be doomed.” In the treaty, the Secretary-General said, wealthy countries should provide financial and technical assistance – along with support from multilateral development banks and technology companies – to help emerging economies accelerate their renewable energy transition.
Guterres said that over the past few weeks, the report has painted “a clear and bleak picture” of global-warming greenhouse gas emissions, which are still rising by 45% by 2030, rather than at record levels, according to scientists. To say that it should be so.
The landmark Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 to address climate change, seeks to increase global temperatures by a maximum of 2 °C (3.6 °F) by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times, and to be as close to 1.5 °C as possible. invokes. (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Guterres said greenhouse gas emissions are now rising by 10%, and that temperatures are expected to rise to 2.8 °C by the end of the century under current policies. “And this means that our planet has certainly reached an extreme point that will make climate chaos irreversible and bake forever in catastrophic temperature rise,” the secretary-general warned.
He said the 1.5 degree target is “in intensive care” and “at high risk”, but it is still possible to meet it. “My objective in Egypt is to ensure that we muster enough political will to pursue this possibility,” the UN chief said.
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“COP27 should be the place to close the ambition gap, the credibility gap and the solidarity gap,” Guterres said. “This should get us back on track to cut emissions, promote climate resilience and adaptation, keep promise on climate finance, and address the harm and damage caused by climate change.”
Data shows that wealthy countries, particularly the United States, emit far more than their share of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Poor countries such as Pakistan, where recent floods have left a third of the country under water, have been affected by far more than their share of global carbon emissions.
Loss and damage have been talked about for years, but rich countries have often negotiated the details of paying for past climate disasters, such as Pakistan’s floods this summer.
“Loss and losses have always been a deferred issue,” Guterres said. “There is no more time to postpone it. We must recognize the loss and damage and create an institutional framework to deal with it. The Secretary-General said on Thursday that “getting tangible results on loss and damage is the litmus test of governments’ commitment to closing all these gaps.” “COP27 should lay the foundation for much faster, bolder climate action now and in this critical decade, when the global climate battle will be won or lost,” Guterres said.