The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, warned this Saturday of the urgent need for a climate agreement between rich and developing countries, otherwise the world population will be “doomed”.
In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, published a few hours before the COP27 that will take place from Sunday in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh, Guterres recalled the unfulfilled commitment that developed countries assumed 10 years ago to give poorest nations in the world a total of 100,000 million euros, until 2020, in the area of aid for climate protection.
“There is no way to avoid a catastrophe if both do not reach an agreement on it,” declared the UN secretary general. “Right now, we are all doomed,” he warned.
António Guterres said the world is approaching an “irreversible” climate crisis and “damage from which it will not be able to recover.”
“We need more urgency, more ambition and rebuilding trust between the north and south of the planet,” he added.
The official stressed that “half of humanity is in a danger zone for floods, droughts, extreme storms and forest fires.”
“No nation is immune. Yet we continue to feed our addiction to fossil fuels. Given this, we have one of two options: either collective action or collective suicide,” he said.
Source: TSF
