Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General
"I'm here to SOUND THE ALARM! The world must wake up. We're on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator, putting the world on course for climate catastrophe. Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, global temperatures keep rising, and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible."
Marco Lambertini, Special Envoy, WWF Int'l
“Human activities are driving and accelerating biodiversity loss, which in turn is undermining our ability to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Entire ecosystems are heading toward collapse, with devastating consequences for people and planet.”
Carlos Nobre, Earth System Scientist, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Science has highlighted the risk of climate tipping points for a long time, but sometimes in COP negotiations people don't talk about the risks, and it needs to be taken seriously when negotiating global agreements to avoid out of control temperatures setting off nasty feedback loops and runaway climate change."
IMPACTS & OUTCOMES
CALL TO ACTION
Planetary Emergency
- All UN Member States should set goals by preparing human rights-based decarbonization plans to reduce GHG emissions 45% by 2030, and ecosystem restoration plans to protect 30% of Earth's lands and seas by 2030.
- Urgent, effective, and ambitious action is required to avoid ecological collapse by addressing the triple planetary threat of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, driven by emissions, deforestation, and agriculture.
- Without a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment the devastating effects of the current global climate crisis affects a wide range of internationally recognized human rights – including the right to breathe clean air, the right to drink potable water, the right to eat nutritious food, and the right to reside in a safe shelter.
- There is an immediate need for humanity to transition to an ecological civilization based on the core principles of mutual respect, knowledge sharing, learning, and reciprocity that sustain living systems to permit sustainable abundance via solutions implemented by Indigenous peoples, local communities, and civil society / youth.
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