2023-06-15 17:10:00
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has denounced a “pitiful” collective world response to the announced prospect of a climate “catastrophe”.
Despite the announced prospect of a climate “catastrophe”, the world’s collective response remains “pitiful”, denounced the UN Secretary General on Thursday, notably attacking once again fossil fuels “incompatible” with the survival of mankind.
“We are rushing towards disaster with our eyes wide open, with far too many people ready to gamble everything on wishful thinking, unproven technologies or silver bullets,” Antonio Guterres said during an interview. a press conference.
“Current policies are driving the world towards +2.8°C warming by the end of the century. This heralds a catastrophe. Yet the collective response is pitiful,” he added.
“Countries are falling far short of delivering on their climate promises and commitments. I see a lack of ambition. A lack of trust. A lack of support. A lack of cooperation. hammered the Secretary General, who will organize a summit on climate action in New York on September 20.
“Accelerate the pace”
“It’s time to wake up and pick up the pace”, he pleaded, still believing that respecting the ideal objective of the agreement to limit warming to +1.5°C is “still possible”. .
But for that, we must act “immediately”, starting “with the polluted heart of the climate crisis: fossil fuels”.
“The problem isn’t just fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels themselves, period.”
Fossil fuel industries, coal, oil and gas, are prime targets of the Secretary General, who urged them to move away from “a product incompatible with human survival”.
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