Africa-Press – Botswana. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, warned yesterday 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 COP27, which will take place from today, in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Guterres recalled the unfulfilled commitment made 10 years ago by developed countries to give nations world’s poorest a total of 100,000 million euros, by 2020, in the context of aid for climate protection.
“There is no way to avoid a catastrophe, if both do not reach an agreement in this regard”, declared the UN Secretary General. “At this moment, we are all doomed”, he warned.
António Guterres said that 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 rebuild trust between the North and South of the planet,” he added.
The official stressed that “half of humanity is in the danger zone of floods, droughts, extreme storms and forest fires.” “No nation is immune. However, we continue to feed our addiction to fossil fuels. Faced with this, we have one of two options: either collective action or collective suicide,” he said.
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