유엔 사무총장 "기후 급변 예측보다 빨라"…긴급 대응 촉구
The head of the UN asked member highlighted the need to focus on climate change.
Antonio Guterres urged them to tackle together, the world's "grave climate emergency".
Kim Mok-yeon shares with us his remarks.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres once again addressed the issue of climate change, stressing that the world should take immediate action in order to avoid a "catastrophe".
Speaking at a two-day climate meeting in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, the UN Chief said that climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis, bringing floods, drought, heat waves, wildfires and super storms.
Guterres called on governments to stop building new coal plants by 2020,... cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45-percent over the next decade,... and overhaul fossil-fuel driven economies,... with new technologies like solar and wind power.
"We are here because the world is facing a grave climate emergency, Climate disruption is happening now and it's happening to all of us. It is progressing even faster than the world's top scientists have predicted. And it's outpacing our efforts to address it."
The UN Chief warned that the situation would only deteriorate unless action is taken with ambition and urgency, and pointed out that some countries still do not realize the dangers of the issue.
He also praised the Paris climate accord,... but said even if its promises are fully met,... the world still faces a three-degree temperature rise by the end of the century.
Under the Paris Agreement signed in 2015, the world is required to keep the temperature rise this century to below 2 degrees Celsius.
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.
