[ad_1]
The Prince of Wales will warn that the climate crisis is “rapidly turning into a global catastrophe that will overshadow the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.”
The crude message is part of a keynote speech that Prince carlos has recorded for the opening event of a virtual climate summit starting Monday.
In his speech, he will say: “Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will lose the window of opportunity to ‘restart’ for … a more sustainable and inclusive future.
“In other words, the global pandemic is a wake-up call that we cannot ignore …[the environmental] The crisis has been with us for too many years: denounced, denigrated and denied. It is now rapidly becoming a global catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of coronavirus pandemic.”
Climate Week NYC is described as the only major international climate summit to be held this year.
‘The global pandemic is a wake-up call that we cannot ignore,’ warns the Prince of Wales
Led by the international nonprofit Climate Group, it hopes to bring together world leaders from the business, government and philanthropic sectors to ensure that talks and action on climate change continue despite the pandemic.
Several major climate events and conferences had to be canceled this year due to COVID-19, including the United Nations Climate Conference Cop26, which was to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, in November and has been rescheduled for next year.
This week, world leaders will come together online for the 75th United Nations General Assembly, where both pandemic and environmental issues will be featured in their discussions of global challenges.
To coincide with the United Nations General Assembly, Oxfam has released a new report to highlight the extent to which the richest people on the planet have been the most polluting.
It found that in the 25 years between 1990 and 2015, the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere doubled and that more than half of that was added by the richest 10% of the planet’s people.
Oxfam’s Tim Gore told Sky News that he believes governments are beginning to realize that climate policy cannot be dealt with separately from issues such as public health and social inequality.
He said: “We don’t need to have climate policy making in one box and concerns about public health in another, or biodiversity, which is another major concern that is being addressed in the United Nations General Assembly this week.”
:: Subscribe to the daily podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker
He added: “These are all part of a common set of interconnected challenges that governments must face and they need the same policies to tackle them all.
“A greener economy is one that will also be better for public health with cleaner air. Of course, we have seen that the respiratory problems that come with polluted air, particularly in cities, have been exposed by the Covid crisis. “.
Speaking to Sky News at the end of the lockdown, Prince Charles felt that the pandemic had forced us to refocus our attention on the need to address the climate crisis and ensure that protecting the planet was at the center of economic recovery. in the post-Covid. world.
He said: “It is only catastrophes that focus the mind, which means that for once, there could be a real drive to address all the things that have been left out because people have said it is irrelevant.”
His speech for New York Climate Week will air on the summit website at 3 p.m. Monday.
