After the young people, it is up to the leaders of the whole world to mobilize for the planet. The “Climate Action Summit” is due to open on Monday, September 23 in New York. Convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, some sixty heads of state are to present him with “Concrete and realistic plans” in order to save the objectives of the Paris agreement.
Signed in 2015, it was supposed to reduce global warming by 2100 to 1.5 ° C or 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial period. However, the latest estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclude that temperatures have increased by 3 ° C… and up to 7 ° C for the most pessimistic forecasts revealed on September 17 by a hundred of French researchers and engineers.
Ambitious goals
Faced with the runaway climate change, Antonio Guterres called on States to “Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050”. On the table, the issue of reducing greenhouse gases will rub shoulders with that of renewable energies, renewable infrastructure, sustainable agriculture, sustainable management of forests and oceans, means of resistance to global warming and of investing in the green economy.
Antonio Guterres, climate knight at the head of the UN
“We need to profoundly change the way we produce our food, where the energy of our economies comes from, how our cities are organized, how we produce our energy”, the UN chief said last week.
Great absentees
60 heads of state and government were invited to New York, but not all of them attended. In the aftermath of legislative elections which failed to separate him from his rival, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu canceled his trip to the UN. The leaders of the United States, Canada, Australia and Brazil also did not answer the call. Actors from civil society, local communities, private companies and international organizations were also invited.
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