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The central objective of The United Nations (UN) by 2021 will create a Coalition for Carbon Neutrality, to counter the “war” that humanity is waging against nature.
António Guterres, UN Secretary General, considered this Wednesday, December 2, in a speech at Columbia University in New York, that humanity is committing a “suicide” by “declaring war on nature” and that the world is close to a “climate catastrophe”, according to reports from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program.
For the UN leader, responding to the climate crisis requires achieving carbon neutrality in 30 years, “aligning global finances with the Paris Agreement” and advancing with advances “in adaptation to protect the world and especially the people and countries vulnerable to climate impacts ”.
The Secretary General expressed his enthusiasm for the commitments made by more than 110 countries to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and for the European Union to aim to be the first continent neutral in polluting emissions.
The UN expects all countries, cities, financial institutions and companies to adopt plans to achieve zero emissions by 2050. This means that by 2030 emissions should be reduced by 45% compared to 2010 levels. Consumers, producers and investors ” Everyone has to do their part, ”Guterres added.
The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement will be celebrated on December 12, at the Climate Ambition Summit, a virtual event, and the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow will take place next year. “The priority for everyone, everywhere” must be “to make peace with nature” and think about future generations.
António Guterres considered that the planet “is damaged”, since due to environmental degradation, which affects the most vulnerable, peace between communities is more distant, conflicts and evictions are more frequent.
All of these are obstacles in efforts to eliminate poverty and ensure food security due to human activities. “It is no coincidence that 70% of the countries most vulnerable to the climate are also among the most politically and economically fragile.”, considered the Secretary General.
Among the 15 countries most susceptible to climate risks, eight are currently receiving UN peacekeeping missions. “As always,” António Guterres lamented, “those who did the least to cause the problem are those who suffer the most.”
Last year’s environmental disasters cost more than 124 billion euros, Guterres said. Desertification, deforestation, decline in biodiversity (one million species at risk of extinction), pollution, warming of the oceans, bleaching of corals, thawing and “floods and apocalyptic fires” were mentioned by the secretary general.
The UN secretary general also warned that spending to respond to the difficulties created by the covid-19 pandemic will remain a debt of “billions of dollars” for future generations. “We cannot use these resources to create policies that overload [as futuras gerações] with a mountain of debts on a destroyed planet ”, considered António Guterres
