New York:
UN chief Antonio Guterres Sunday known as on the Group of Twenty (G20) nations on the problem of climate action, adding that he sees no pathway to attain Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius aim without the need of the leadership of the G20 nations.
“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations. There is no pathway to this goal without the leadership of the G20,” UN Secretary-General mentioned in a statement.
“This signal is desperately needed by the billions of people already on the front lines of the climate crisis and by markets, investors and industry who require certainty that a net-zero climate-resilient future is inevitable,” he mentioned.
Science shows that in order to meet this ambitious, however achievable aim, the world have to attain carbon neutrality ahead of 2050 and reduce hazardous greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2010 levels. But the world is way off track, Guterres mentioned.
With much less than one hundred days left ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, he urged all G20 and other leaders to commit to net-zero by mid-century, present more ambitious 2030 national climate plans and provide on concrete policies and actions aligned with a net-zero future, such as no new coal just after 2021, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and agreeing to a minimum international carbon pricing floor as proposed by the International Monetary Fund.
The Group of Seven (G7) and other created nations have to also provide on a credible solidarity package of help for establishing nations, such as meeting the $one hundred billion aim, rising adaptation and resilience help to at least 50 % of total climate finance and acquiring public and multilateral development banks to substantially align their climate portfolios to meet the requires of establishing nations, he mentioned.
Guterres mentioned he intended to use the chance of the upcoming UN General Assembly higher-level session to bring leaders with each other to attain a political understanding on these crucial components of the package required for Glasgow.
The G20 ministers, which met in Naples, Italy on July 23-25, could not agree to a widespread language on two disputed concerns connected to phasing out coal and the 1.5-degree aim, which now will have to be discussed at the G20 summit in Rome in October, just one day ahead of the COP 26 begins.
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