Read the UN Secretary-General’s full speech after the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises.It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world.Terrifying storms. Widespread water shortages. The extinction of a million species of plants and animals.It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies.We are on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5-degree limit agreed in Paris.
They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability.But the main problem – the enormous, growing emissions gap – was all but ignored. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness. Such investments will soon be stranded assets – a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.It sets out viable, financially sound options in every sector that can keep the possibility of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees alive.
It means climate coalitions, made up of developed countries, multilateral development banks, private financial institutions, and corporations, supporting major emerging economies in making this shift. We need to build on their work to create a grassroots movement that cannot be ignored. If you live in a big city, a rural area, or a small island state; if you invest in the stock market; if you care about justice, and our children’s future; I am appealing directly to you: demand that renewable energy is introduced now – at speed and at scale.
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