"FOSSIL FUELS"

"As we strive for net zero emissions, we need all hands-on deck,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the opening of the sixth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting on Wednesday. UNIFEED

Addressing United States President Joe Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Mother Nature is not waiting,” and called on leaders everywhere to take action. UNIFEED

Joint Press Conference by UN and WMO Secretaries-General on State of Global Climate in 2020 Report

UN chief António Guterres said, “2020 was 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial times. We are getting dangerously close to the 1.5 degree Celsius limit that was set by the scientific community. We are on the verge of the abyss.” UNIFEED

10th Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum on the theme, "A Decade of Action: Building a Resilient Recovery".

The IMF announced that the recently passed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package would increase US GDP by five to six percent over three years. IMF

Welcoming the United States’ reentry into the Paris Agreement, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “today is a day of hope,” and it is “good news for the United States — and for the world.” UNIFEED

UN chief António Guterres said that he believes the G20 is “well placed” to establish an Emergency Task Force to prepare a Global Vaccination Plan for COVID-19, “bringing together countries, companies and international organizations and financial institutions with the required power, scientific expertise and production and financial capacities.” UNIFEED

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Alok Sharma, COP26 President Designate, brief Member States on preparations for COP26.

“We need more ambition, more ambition on mitigation, ambition on adaptation and ambition on finance,” to achieve goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. UNIFEED