In connection with the recent research by scientists on global climate change on Earth, UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed alarm and called on the member states of the Organization to take urgent measures to prevent cataclysms, the UN press center reported. “Scientists are worried that we will miss the moment, we will not take immediate action, and then the goals stated in the Paris Agreement will be impracticable,” Guterres said.
The ministry stressed that world leaders entered into the Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015, pledging to keep the increase in global temperature within 2 or even 1.5 ° Celsius. “I’m starting to ask myself how many more alarms should come before we take action,” added the UN Secretary General. He also recalled the "climate chaos" that humanity experienced last year, and that it cost the global economy $ 320 billion.
The UN Secretary General also said about the need to take urgent measures to stop climate change. He called for reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere by at least 25% in the next 2 years. He also called on the United States, despite the Trump administration's initiative to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, nevertheless to fulfill its earlier commitments. “The tsunami of incoming data should cause a storm in our minds,” Guterres said. He confirmed that he intends to convene a climate summit in New York next year to mobilize the international community.