UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Has Told World Leaders To

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To plants after 2020 and commit to getting provide inspiration, a succession of to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. nough with the platitudes — world leaders will take the stage and That list has rankled countries with it’s time for world leaders to announce concrete steps they will take to plans to open new coal plants, such as take concrete actions to avert avoid disastrous levels of warming. How Japan, South Korea and South Africa. a catastrophic heating of the far those plans go will be an important Their leaders were not among those planet. signal of what to expect in the coming invited to speak, the Financial Times EThat’s the message United Nations years. reported. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Rachel Kyte, a special representative has delivered to the heads of state What exactly will be happening? of the UN secretary-general who is chief gathering in New York for a summit About 60 world leaders will have executive of the nonprofi t Sustainable aimed at galvanising action to slow the opportunity to speak, and many Energy for All, said Guterres’ conditions global warming. Offi cials from dozens will announce more aggressive goals for participation in the summit are of countries are expected to take to the for cutting planet-warming pollution. intended to send a clear message: “We stage and reveal plans to step up their Among those expected to appear are are no longer in a generic, goal-setting eff orts during the day-long meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, mode. We are in the implementation of today, which will be accompanied by a Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the decarbonisation of the economy.” variety of climate-related events. and dozens of other heads of state. Here’s a look at what the summit is all A number of small- and medium- Why is this happening now? about. sized countries will probably increase Because the world is running out their commitments, said David Waskow, of time to get the Paris pact on track Why is this summit happening? director of the International Climate and contain the damage from climate The Climate Action Summit is Initiative at the World Resources change. an attempt to kick-start the global Institute think tank. “What’s not clear The 2015 Paris agreement aims to campaign against climate change. is the extent to which major emitters are keep global warming “well below” 2C It comes at a critical juncture going to make those announcements.” compared with preindustrial levels, and following the 2015 Paris climate within 1.5C if possible, in order to avert accord, an unprecedented international What is the UN asking for? the most devastating eff ects of climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas Guterres has told world leaders to change. emissions. Participating countries are “bring plans, not speeches,” and has But the national targets agreed to in supposed to continually ratchet down off ered stage time only to those with the Paris fall signifi cantly short of that goal. their emissions, and their fi rst plans for most ambitious and credible targets. Human activity has already warmed the doing so must be ironed out next year. He also asked participating nations to planet by about 1C, and fulfi lling only But most nations are moving far too support an end to fossil fuel subsidies, the Paris commitments is likely to result Monday, September 23, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY

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