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Guterres, Johnson announce December climate summit
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 09 - 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted plans to hold the annual international UN climate meeting — known as the COP — this year, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have announced that they will instead co-host a "landmark global event" on Dec. 12, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
The event is being dubbed "the sprint to Glasgow" by the UN. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the UK was slated to host this year's COP in the Scottish City. The Summit is now scheduled to take place a year later, in November 2021.
The December event will be held amid signs that the world is off-track to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and that a carbon-free economy is long overdue.
"The climate emergency is fully upon us, and we have no time to waste, Guterres said in a statement. "The answer to our existential crisis is swift, decisive, scaled up action and solidarity among nations".
The aim of the event is to rally momentum and call for much greater climate action and ambition. National governments will be invited to present more ambitious and high-quality climate plans, as well as COVID recovery plans, new finance commitments and measures to limit global warming to 1.5C.
It will bring together leaders from across all levels of government, as well as the private sector and civil society, to present new measures, boosting ambition and action.
High-level climate roundtable
More details of the event will be released on Thursday, during an online High-level Roundtable on climate, which will feature addresses from Guterres and Johnson, as well as several other world leaders.
The Roundtable, beginning at 11:30 New York time, features opening remarks from Guterres and Johnson; a discussion on climate finance from several leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Sebastián Piñera Echenique, president of the Republic of Chile, the country originally slated to host this year's climate COP.
Discussions on aligning COVID-19 recovery packages and business plans with the 1.5C and carbon neutrality goals, and on climate adaptation and resilience will follow. — UN News


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