UN Chief on Climate Ambition

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Remarks by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the High-level Roundtable on Climate Ambition. Remarks: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-09-24/secretary-generals-remarks-high-level-roundtable-climate-ambition-delivered With the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted plans to hold the annual international UN climate meeting - known as the COP - this year, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have announced that they will instead co-host a “landmark global event” on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Speaking to a high-level roundtable on climate ambition today (24 Sep), Guterres said, “all COVID-19 recovery packages need to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy. Any plan that supports economically costly and polluting coal or fossil fuel industries cannot be called “recovery”.” Plans, policies and portfolios, he said, “must demonstrate that they are consistent with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” The Secretary-General said, “resilience and adaptation action do not get the funding they need” and asked developed countries “to deliver this year on their commitment to provide and mobilize $100 billion dollars a year for mitigation, adaptation and resilience in developing countries.” He said governments “must also remove expensive fossil fuel subsidies and take that money to invest in new jobs for the poorest com

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