He UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiellhe assured this Thursday in the opening ceremony of the COP28 Climate Summit that, if you don’t start with the end of the fossil fuel eraa terminal phase will begin that will end people’s lives.
“If we do not mark the terminal phase of the era of the fossil fuels As we know it, we welcome our terminal phase. And we choose to pay with people’s lives,” he said in Dubai, COP28 headquarters which is celebrated until next December 12.
He indicated that if this transition to renewable energy is not fair, “no transition” will be made.
He head of the UN for the climate crisis He said that “baby steps” are being taken, steps “too slowly from an unstable world that lacks resilience to developing the best responses” to the “complex impacts” facing the world.
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“We must teach how to run climate action because this has been the hottest year of humanity. Many have been beaten records terrifying,” he noted, and stated that these records are costing “people’s lives and livelihoods.”
Stiell wanted to remember that all the participants in this COP appear on a public list, for the first time after the UN change the accreditation rules to make it more “transparent.”
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“Yes, this is the greatest COP to date,” he asserted, given that some 70,000 delegates are expected, but attending a climate summit “is not enough to meet the climate goals for the year“. “The badges you wear around your neck make you responsible for climate action here and at home,” he concluded.