UN chief insists on transition to renewable energy

In meetings on the occasion of the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Minister highlighted the importance of taking urgent measures to help countries facing difficulties and advance the sustainable development goals.

According to Guterres’ spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, the Secretary-General arrived in Washington on Friday to attend the annual meeting of shareholders of these international organizations.

Likewise, he met with the US Presidential Climate Envoy, John Kerry.

Dujarric said they agreed on the need to redouble joint efforts to mitigate emissions at the G-20, to provide financing to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and to protect populations from the devastating effects of atmospheric conditions.

Recently, the head of the United Nations denounced that while climate chaos is advancing at full speed, work has stalled to counter its effects.

In an interview with the press ahead of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27), scheduled for November 6-18 in Egypt, he noted that the work ahead of us is enormous and that the collective commitments of G20 governments arrive too little and too late. .

Likewise, he noted, current policies are closing the door to the opportunity to limit global temperature rise to 2°C, in the midst of a “life-and-death struggle for our security today and our survival tomorrow.”

Guterres also commented that emissions are at an all-time high and on the rise, while there are constraints in some areas of the private sector around fossil fuels.

COP 26 concluded in November last year in Glasgow, Scotland, with a tepid call to speed up coal’s removal as an energy source and eliminate inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, media noted.

“Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread, and we are still on the verge of a climate catastrophe, so it is time to adopt emergency mode, or our chance of achieving zero emissions will be zero,” Guterres said.

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