Dyears a video message on the occasion of the publication of the 3e report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN chief Antonio Guterres said successful transition requires shifting investment and subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables, without further delay.
“Switching to renewable energy will rectify our failing global energy mix and give hope to the millions of people who are experiencing the effects of climate change today”he explained.
In this framework, Guterres urged climate coalitions, made up of developed countries, multilateral development banks, private financial institutions and private companies, to support major emerging economies in this change.
Objective: reduce global emissions by 45% in 10 years
For him, it is essential to make rapid progress in reducing methane emissions and to translate into action the commitments made at COP21 in Paris and COP26 in Glasgow. “The choices countries make today will make or break efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees”said the UN SG.
He also noted that the present report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of unfulfilled climate promises, considering that it is a dossier “dishonorable, where are listed the empty promises which, ineluctably, lead us on the path of an unlivable world”.
“We are fast approaching climate catastrophe”warned the senior UN official, pointing out the consequences of current energy policies. “We are on the way to global warming exceeding twice the limit of 1.5 degrees set in Paris”he warned, adding that the world is already “dangerously” close to tipping points that might lead to irreversible cascading effects.
He insisted on the need to reduce global emissions by 45% during this decade so that the limit of 1.5 degrees set in Paris remains an achievable goal.
The SG of the UN, in this sense, specified that the report presented, for all sectors, viable and financially sound options making it possible to maintain the possibility of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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