国际英语资讯:UN General Assembly to spotlight climate change: Guterres_时事

国际英语资讯:UN General Assembly to spotlight climate change: Guterres

"I expect there will be an announcement and unveiling of a number of meaningful plans on dramatically reducing emissions during the next decade, and on reaching carbon neutrality by 2050," the secretary-general told reporters.

"We will showcase promising initiatives aiming at moving away from coal, putting a price on carbon, stopping subsidies for fossil fuels, and cutting the pollution that damages our health," he said.

"And we will highlight the importance of scaling up nature-based solutions, creating cleaner ways in the way we work and societies function, building resilience, protecting people, mobilizing finance and promoting decent jobs for a just transition," the secretary-general added.

Noting the forthcoming summits and high-level meetings will be distilled into two words - ambition and action, the UN chief said that "I told leaders not to come with fancy speeches, but with concrete commitments."

Citing the example that just Wednesday morning, the UN Development Programme announced the Climate Promise initiative to boost the commitment to support 100 countries in enhancing their national pledges under the Paris Agreement by 2020, the UN chief said that "the UN is already doing its part."

"Also today - along with the International Labour Organization and partners Spain and Peru - we are launching the Climate Action for Jobs, an initiative to put job creation and protecting livelihoods at the center of national climate action plans," he added.