Published 11:25 IST, December 3rd 2019
United Nations opens two-week climate change summit in Madrid
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, at climate summit said,“The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change''
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United Nations' two-week climate summit commenced on December 2 in Mrid. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres in his opening speech said, “ world must choose hope over surrender in fight against climate change." leers of world will face challenge and pressure to prove that ir political strategies will help to fight catastrophic impacts of climate change caused due to global warming.
Climate summit in Mrid
discussions began on tremendous change in climate due to a constant increase in temperatures in past few years which also led to massive melting of ice caps in Arctic region, followed by wildfires ranging from Amazonian rainforests to Australian forests. '' world is witnessing devastating storms and hurricanes across several tropical regions leing to severe consequences,''Guterres said. “Do we really want to be remembered as generation that buried its he in sand, that fiddled while planet burned?” he questioned. Un-General secreatry furr ded,
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“One is path of surrender, where we have sleelked past point of return,” he said. “ or option is path of hope. A path of resolve, of sustainable solutions.”
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last round of UN climate negotiations was held in Polish city of Katowice in December last year by Michał Kurtyka, Poland’s climate minister. During Mrid summit, he said that raising concerns among youth in accordance with climate underscored urgency of task. Kurtyka in official opening ceremony of talks at a vast conference center in Mrid said “Maybe world is t moving yet at pace we would like but my hope is still particularly with young people,” He furr ded that “y have cour to speak up and remind us that we inherited this planet from our parents, and we need to hand it over to future generations,”.
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main objective of conference is to assemble final groundwork required to accomplish 2015 Paris Agreement which aims at tackling climate change. Paris summit will enter its next phase next year. world leers and lawmakers are expected to implement important policies with respect to climate change.
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19:01 IST, December 2nd 2019