UN Chief Calls For Greater Action To Fight Climate Change
Faizan Hashmi Published October 14, 2018 | 02:36 PM
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 14 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Oct, 2018 ) :UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for stepping up action to fight runaway climate change through measures such as planting more tree and reducing use of fossil fuels.
Limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees will require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society � especially how we manage land, energy, industry, buildinngs, transport and cities, Secretary-General Antnio Guterres, at a ministerial meeting on climate finance, in Bali, Indonesia, on Saturday.
That means ending deforestation and planting billions more trees; drastically reducing the use of fossil fuels and massively increasing renewable energy; switching to climate-friendly sustainable agriculture.; considering new technologies, such as carbon capture and storage.
In his remarks, the UN chief made a particular call for climate friendly investments, particularly in the infrastructure sector, where over $90 trillion in investments is expected by 2030.
The next few years are critical [and] your leadership is needed, Guterres told the ministers.
Highlighting enormous economic losses to climate-related disasters and projections that by 2050, climate change could reduce annual GDP in some South and Southeast Asian countries by up to 4 per cent, the Secretary-General underscored that climate risk cannot be ignored.
We need a new economic framework that integrates climate and disaster risk in all aspects of finance, planning and budgeting, he said.
He also called for fundamental shifts in climate financing, including government policies that can increase resources available for climate action.Alongside, effective economic policy and fiscal instruments are also needed, he continued, urging a meaningful price on carbon and an end to fossil fuel subsidies to promote low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.
Governments need to encourage their banks to support green financing and innovative financial instruments � such as green bonds and debt instruments that can strengthen the resilience of vulnerable nations, said the UN chief, calling also for the mobilization of private sector financing.
In his remarks, he also called on countries to make full use of the upcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-24), to be held in Katowice, Poland, and to come out of the meeting with a robust framework that allows countries to operationalize and implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
I count on all leaders to call on their negotiators to resolve all sticking points and insist on progress, he said.
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