UN Secretary-General António Guterres: G20 leadership is essential
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres just issued a statement stating that "there is an urgent need for all G20 member states to make a clear and unequivocal commitment to achieving the Paris Agreement target of no warming of no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius." The latest round of meetings of the G20 environment, climate and energy ministers in Naples, Italy, failed to reach consensus on the above goals.
Thousands of people at the forefront of the climate crisis, as well as markets, investors and industry companies, urgently need the G20 to send a clear signal that a zero-carbon and climate-resilient future is certain to be achieved, the statement said. The international community must be carbon neutral by 2050 and reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emission levels by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2010, but for now countries are still far behind the established track.
In less than 100 days, the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, and Guterres urged leaders to release a more ambitious national climate plan for 2030, complemented by concrete policies and actions, including no more new coal-fired power plants, phase out fossil fuel subsidies, and agreement on the international minimum low-carbon pricing proposed by the International Monetary Fund.
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