国际英语资讯:Guterres urges concrete action at UN climate summit_时事

国际英语资讯:Guterres urges concrete action at UN climate summit

The opening ceremony also included a session of dialogue between Guterres and youth representatives.

Some 100 government, business and civil society leaders, many of them heads of state and government, are expected to speak at the summit.

The meeting serves as a platform for climate leaders to raise political ambition that will result in enhanced and irreversible commitments to action in national climate plans to significantly cut emissions.

Guterres has prioritized nine action portfolios: finance, energy transition, industry transition, nature-based solutions, infrastructure, cities and local action, resilience and adaptation, youth and mobilization, the social transition, and mitigation ambition.

The commitments and actions made at the summit will be put in a summary by the UN secretary-general at the end of the meeting.

The Paris Agreement, a 2017 landmark climate accord, pledges to keep global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and strive for a lower limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In a scientific report released last year by UN climate panel IPCC, it became clear that the world should strive to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or below.

In line with this goal, Guterres asked leaders to come to the summit with pledges consistent with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and then to net zero by 2050.

A key principle in the Paris Agreement is that nations will toughen their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years to ratchet up the fight against global warming.