The Secretary-General of the United Nations calls on the world to `declare a climate emergency`

Arab Weather - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, urged governments around the world to declare a climate emergency so that the world reaches a complete elimination of carbon dioxide emissions, and that was during his speech at the Climate Summit, which is supposedly organized this year due to the precautionary measures to contain The spread of the Covid-19 virus, as more than 70 world leaders, civil society activists, business and municipal leaders gathered on Saturday at the Climate Ambition Summit , which marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, to define new commitments to tackle climate change.

The state of emergency declaration requires countries to urgently intensify their measures to stop emissions of gases that cause global warming, and 38 countries have declared this state of emergency, because most of them are already exposed to the repercussions of climate change and the risk of the collapse of climate systems, so many governments aim to reach Zero net emissions by mid-century, but few have put in place serious, detailed blueprints to reach this goal.

In light of the world’s endeavor to recover from the Corona crisis and its recession, many countries are pumping money into activities of high carbon dioxide emissions, which aroused the Secretary-General’s dissatisfaction and expressed his lack of acceptance of what is happening, and stated: What is happening is a moral test, as that The trillions of dollars needed to recover from the Corona crisis are money that are borrowed from future generations, and these resources cannot be used and future generations are left mired in debt on a shattered planet.