Climate crisis: the UN pleads for a rapid reduction in GHG emissions

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The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called to quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate adaptation to deal with an exacerbated climate crisis.

In a message on the occasion of the International Day of the Nourishing Earth Celebrated on April 22, the UN chief said that last year was the hottest ever recorded, evoking a “grace of a decade of record heat”.

“We know the cause of this disease: the greenhouse gas emissions that humanity rejects in the atmosphere, and which mainly come from fossil fuels,” he deplored, adding that the symptoms of this “disease” are forest fires, floods and heat, which are wreaking havoc.

To overcome this situation, the senior UN official insisted on the need to quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate adaptation in order to protect the nature of climatic disasters.

“Everyone is gaining in taking the path of healing. Renewable energies are cheaper, healthier and safer than fossil fuels,” he said, saying that adaptation measures are essential to create solid savings and safer societies.

In his eyes, all countries must establish new national climate action plans compatible with the objective of limiting the increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which will be essential to avoid the worst climatic disasters.