"GREENHOUSE GASES"

UN Global Compact Executive Director Sanda Ojiambo and the Chief Executive Officer of CDP, Paul Simpson, brief correspondents on new research from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a body enabling businesses to set ambitious emissions reduction targets, that reveals that none of the G7’s leading stock indexes are currently aligned with a 1.5°C or 2°C pathway, and calls on the largest listed G7 companies to urgently increase climate action.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

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

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

Ahead of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, officially launches UNEP's new report, "Making peace with Nature".

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets the press after delivering his remarks at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020.

Press Conference by Selwin Hart, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Climate Action and ASG of the Climate Action Team on the Climate Ambition Summit that will be held on 19 December.

“The state of the planet is broken,” said the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in a speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York. Guterres described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hit a new record of 410.5 parts per million (PPM) in 2019 and are expected to keep rising this year despite a slight reduction in emissions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. UNTV CH

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Petteri Taalas, the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, present WMO’s United in Science 2020 report.