United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed the need to maintain global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels sustained by life-support systems through additional efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

Guterres said during a special meeting of heads of state and government at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York that “there is a climate emergency and a global crisis in food, energy and finance, as the floods in Pakistan inundated a third of the country this month, and this happened when there is only 1.2 degrees Celsius of global warming, and the world is now moving towards an increase of more than three degrees.

Regarding cooperation to lower prices, he urged leaders to “make important decisions to overcome the triangular crisis of food, energy and finance”, calling on international financial institutions to “intensify their efforts on behalf of developing countries and increase their support to prevent a larger crisis.” crisis next year”, noting that they are “needed”. For immediate debt relief, the Debt Service Suspension Initiative must be strengthened and expanded.”

The Secretary-General also referred to the role played by the United Nations and the international community in supporting the transition to renewable energy to help those affected by climate change, adding that “active work is underway to create conditions for developed countries to seriously related to adaptation. “, and stressed that “Without disaster mitigation, there will be more, and without adaptation, countries will not be able to cope with the consequences of disasters and alleviate the suffering of people.”