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Despite the measures that companies and governments are taking to improve the environment, the results have not been enough. For this reason, representatives of the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) will talk about the issue at another summit on climate change. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will lead the Climate Action Summit. The secretary asked participating world leaders to not just show up to read speeches, but to be armed with bold plans and commitments to concrete action to curb global warming under the outline of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. UN vs climate change; action measures are reinforced At the meeting of 700 participants from around the world, Guterres said: "There is a change of momentum, in large part, because of the initiative" and concluded: I have granddaughters, I want them to live on a habitable planet. My generation has an enormous responsibility. It is yours that must hold us accountable and ensure that we do not betray the future of humanity. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN. Climate change strike A few days ago, Greta Thunberg, the student who has gone out to protest every Friday for international governments to do something in favor of the environment, called the Global Climate Strike between September 20 and 27, in this way more people were mobilized.
Million people in 150 countries, among them, about 250 thousand interested in New York. During her speech, Greta said that young people are understanding how governments have negative actions against the environment. In addition, he accused world leaders of omission and betrayal in the face of climate change. The activist became an Argentina Mobile Number List international reference a year ago, when she began skipping school to raise her voice regarding the climate in front of parliament. Greta's speech «My message is that we will be watching them. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here, I should be back at school, on the other side of the ocean. Yet do you come to us young people for hope? How dare they? They have stolen my dreams and my childhood with their empty words. And yet, I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction. And all they can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare they? For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare they continue to look the other way and come here to say they are doing enough, when the policy and solutions needed are not yet in sight? They say they "listen" to us and understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I don't want to believe that.
Because if they really understood the situation and didn't act anyway, then they would be evil. And I refuse to believe that. The idea of halving our emissions in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees, and the risk of triggering irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. Maybe 50% is acceptable to you, but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, hidden additional warming from toxic air pollution, or issues of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation absorbing hundreds of billions of tons of its CO2 from the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degree global temperature rise, in the best odds given by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the world had 420 gigatonnes of CO2 to emit on January 1, 2018. Today that figure has already been reduced to less than 350 gigatons. How dare they pretend that this can be solved with business as usual and some technical solutions? At current emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be completely gone in less than 8 and a half years. Solutions or plans in line with these figures will not be presented today because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And they are not yet mature enough to tell it like it is. They are failing us. But young people are beginning to understand his betrayal.
Million people in 150 countries, among them, about 250 thousand interested in New York. During her speech, Greta said that young people are understanding how governments have negative actions against the environment. In addition, he accused world leaders of omission and betrayal in the face of climate change. The activist became an Argentina Mobile Number List international reference a year ago, when she began skipping school to raise her voice regarding the climate in front of parliament. Greta's speech «My message is that we will be watching them. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here, I should be back at school, on the other side of the ocean. Yet do you come to us young people for hope? How dare they? They have stolen my dreams and my childhood with their empty words. And yet, I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction. And all they can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare they? For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare they continue to look the other way and come here to say they are doing enough, when the policy and solutions needed are not yet in sight? They say they "listen" to us and understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I don't want to believe that.
Because if they really understood the situation and didn't act anyway, then they would be evil. And I refuse to believe that. The idea of halving our emissions in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees, and the risk of triggering irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. Maybe 50% is acceptable to you, but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, hidden additional warming from toxic air pollution, or issues of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation absorbing hundreds of billions of tons of its CO2 from the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degree global temperature rise, in the best odds given by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the world had 420 gigatonnes of CO2 to emit on January 1, 2018. Today that figure has already been reduced to less than 350 gigatons. How dare they pretend that this can be solved with business as usual and some technical solutions? At current emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be completely gone in less than 8 and a half years. Solutions or plans in line with these figures will not be presented today because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And they are not yet mature enough to tell it like it is. They are failing us. But young people are beginning to understand his betrayal.