{"id":8751,"date":"2019-02-15T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8751"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:45:25","slug":"2019-will-be-critical-for-climate-action-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8751","title":{"rendered":"2019 will be critical for climate action, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE-1024x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE-1024x460.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE-768x345.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE-600x270.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UN-CLIMATE.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Joint briefing on 2019 Climate Summit. Photo courtesy of UN Photo\/Loey Felipe<br><br> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>United Nations, Feb 15 (NNN) \u2013 The year 2019 will be a\ncritical year for the international community to take effective action on\nclimate change, said UN General Assembly President, Maria Espinosa on Thursday,\nduring a briefing to announce the UN\u2019s roadmap to the Climate Summit in\nSeptember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a joint briefing with the Secretary\u2019s General\u2019s\nSpecial Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of\nMexico, at the UN Headquarters in New York, Espinosa said the world was at a\ncrossroads with the approaching deadline for achieving the first targets of the\n2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two-thirds of these targets, she said, depended on climate\nand environment goals, and a five-fold increase in commitments from their current\nlevels will be needed in order to meet the targets set at the 2015 Paris\nAgreement on dealing with greenhouse emissions mitigation, adaptation and\nfinance, due to come into force in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting on the briefing, UN News said the UN has lined up several\nkey events leading to the Climate Summit and its follow-up. These include a high-level\nmeeting intended to build on the success of COP24, the 2018 climate conference\nin Katowice, Poland which resulted in the establishment of a rulebook for the\nreporting of emissions and the progress made in cutting them, every year from\n2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A \u201cstocktaking\u201devent will be held in Abu Dhabi in June,\nfollowed by a political forum under the auspices of the Economic and Social\nCouncil in July, which will see a review of the progress made in achieving\nSustainable Development Goal 13 (urgent action to combat climate change and its\nimpacts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multilateralism will be the only effective way to combat\nclimate change, said Espinosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Alba, meanwhile said the world was falling behind its\ntargets for combating climate change, with only a third of the necessary work\ncompleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year needs to see action, and this should include\npartnerships with the private sector and civil society and a huge mobilisation\nof resources (a target of 1 trillion dollars per year to support developing\ncountries has been set) to invest in \u201cour future, for jobs in a green future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations, Feb 15 (NNN) \u2013 The year 2019 will be a critical year for the international community to take effective action on climate change, said UN General Assembly President, Maria Espinosa on Thursday, during a briefing to announce the UN\u2019s roadmap to the Climate Summit in September. 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