‘This is madness’: UN Secretary-General lamentes abandoned climate goals – Do you support that?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

As the United Nations’ plan to take on the world’s climate leadership role unravels and the world focuses on real issues, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on everyone to remember the fake climate crisis.

UN chief warns against ‘sleepwalking before climate disaster’

March 21, 2022 Climate and Environment

The goal to limit future warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is outlined in Paris Agreement about climate change and driving home last November COP26are gathering in Glasgow, currently on “life support” and “in intensive care”, the head of the United Nations told the Economist’s Sustainability Summit on Monday.

Speaking via video link, Secretary General António Guterres emphasize some progress was made at COP 26 last year but pointed to the “huge emissions gap” conceding that “the main problem remains unresolved – it is not even properly addressed”.

“Keeping 1.5 alive requires a 45% reduction in global emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by mid-century.,” he said, noting how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to become a major obstacle to a concerted effort to accelerate climate action.

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Last year alone, global energy-related CO2 emissions rose 6% “to an all-time high”, Mr Guterres said, as coal emissions rose “to a record high”.

With the planet warming up to 1.2 degrees and where climate disasters have displaced 30 million people from their homes, Mr. Guterres warned.We are sleepwalking in the face of a climate disaster. ”

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If we don’t want to “kiss goodbye 1.5 times… we need to go to the source – G20”(Group of leading industrialized nations), said the head of the United Nations.

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The head of the Foundation said: “We cannot point fingers while the planet is on fire.

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As major economies pursue a so-called “all on” strategy to replace Russia’s fossil fuels, short-term measures could create a long-term dependence on fossil fuels, he warned. length and close the window 1.5 degrees.

“Countries can become so consumed by an immediate shortage of fossil fuel supplies that they ignore or ignore policies to cut fossil fuel use.”, Mr. Guterres emphasized. “This is madness.”

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“Developed countries, multilateral development banks, private financial institutions and companies with technical know-how – all need to join forces… To provide support of scale and speed to coal-intensive economies,” he added.

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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114322

In my view, the UN’s continued adherence to its climate beliefs simply shows how optimistic they are about the needs of the people they claim to serve. Even green Germany has thrown away its climate freshness in the face of the Ukraine crisis. But the UN is so separate from ordinary people, they simply don’t care. The message of necessity has yet to be penetrated.