"I have granddaughters. I want my granddaughters to live in a liveable planet. My generation has a huge responsibility. It is your generation that must make us accountable to make sure that we don't betray the future of humankind," he said with emotion.
Guterres, who attended the Youth Climate Summit as the "keynote listener," asked world leaders to listen.
"I have been more times a keynote speaker than a listener. That is one of the problems of world leaders: they talk too much and they listen too little."
"It is in listening that we learn. It is in giving the possibility for all those that represent today's world to speak and to have their voices be part of decision-making processes that we can move forward."
Guterres saw global warming as a game-changer. "We have had conflicts among people for centuries or for millennia since the human race existed. But, for the first time, there is a serious conflict between people and nature, between people and the planet."
This situation could be absolutely destructive for the future of communities and for the future of all societies, he warned.
It's not only a question of glaciers or ice caps, or corals, even if biodiversity is a vital question in today's world. But it is more and more about the suffering of people. And this will become worse and worse as time goes by. Lots of people are today dramatically dying and suffering because of the impacts of climate change, he said.
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