Placed fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal), the main responsible for greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet , at the center of the climate crisis . And he has called on every country in the world to tax the windfall profits that fossil fuel companies are making from the current rise in energy prices. “Let’s redirect money to people struggling with rising food and energy prices and to countries suffering loss and damage caused by the climate crisis,” said the UN chief at the start of the summit. of the climate that is celebrated in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh,the so-called COP27 .
Family photo of the 125 Heads of State and Government who have attended COP27, the UN summit on climate change that takes place from Sunday to the 18th in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh. At this meeting, the issue of loss and damage will have a prominent place, the strong economic impacts due to current and future warming, such as those caused by extreme weather events or the islands that will disappear with the rise in sea level.
Family photo of the 125 Heads of State and Government who have attended COP27, the UN summit on climate change that takes place from Sunday to the 18th in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh. At this meeting, the issue of loss and damage will have a prominent place, the strong economic impacts due to current and future warming, such as those caused by extreme weather events or the islands that will disappear with the rise in sea level.
At this summit , the issue of loss and damage will have a prominent place , the strong economic impacts due to current and future warming, such as those caused by extreme weather events or the islands that will disappear with the rise in sea level. And Guterres has made it clear that “obtaining concrete results on loss and damage is a litmus test of the governments’ commitment to the success of COP27″. The most vulnerable nations are the ones that put the most pressure so that at this summit the foundations can be laid for the establishment of a compensation mechanism or fund with financing. The UN Secretary General has called for “a clear roadmap with precise deadlines.”
For Guterres it is a “moral imperative” to deal with this issue, a question of “climate justice”. “Those who contributed the least to the climate crisis are reaping the whirlwind sown by others,” he said, referring to the most vulnerable countries that, at the same time, are the ones that expel the least greenhouse gas emissions per capita into the atmosphere.
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Guterres delivered this speech during the opening of the high-level event of COP27, in which more than a hundred heads of state and government from around the world will participate. This act is the starting signal for the discussions that the representatives of the almost 200 countries that are part of the UN negotiations on climate change will carry out for two weeks.
The main EU leaders participate in the opening —among them Pedro Sánchez— and, although he will not be at the inauguration, Joe Biden, president of the United States, will also attend the Sharm el Sheikh summit at the end of the week. However, the top leaders of China, India and Russia will not participate in person. This does not mean that these countries will not attend the summit, since their ministers and delegates will be in the negotiations.
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