Mr. Kutsena at the U.N. climate talks in Peru called for world leaders to take urgent action towards a climate agreement that promotes socio-economic development in a sustainable manner. The call for action was made ahead of his address to the high-level segment of the 20th session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
United Nations General Assembly President Sam Kutsena urged collective climate action amidst “moving toward the tipping point.”
Mr. Kutsena at the U.N. climate talks in Peru called for world leaders to take urgent action towards a climate agreement that promotes socio-economic development in a sustainable manner. The call for action was made ahead of his address to the high-level segment of the 20th session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
“Our planet is warming. Greenhouse gases concentrations are on the increase. Snow is diminishing. Ice is also diminishing. Sea-levels are rising. Droughts are becoming longer and frequent. Floods and landslides are increasing,” Mr. Kutsena enumerated.
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“There is little doubt that human activity is primarily responsible for this. Inevitable, this calls for our collective urgent actions towards mitigation and adaptation,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kutsena said the General Assembly will soon start negotiations on the U.N. post-2015 agenda.
“Our efforts towards addressing the three dimensions of sustainable development – social, economic and environmental – clearly relate to what has brought us to Lima,” Mr. Kutsena said.
C.O.P. 20, which started on December 1 (see related story), gathers 196 Parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. in an attempt to hammer out the new universal treaty which would enter into force by 2020, it is seen as “a decisive step” towards achieving universal, binding agreement in Paris in December 2015. – EcoSeed Staff
