The United Nations (UN) has asked governments “drastically” reduce emissions by 2025 after a decade “of deadly heat, the ten hottest years in history.” “By 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically reducing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future. It is essential and it is possible,” said the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, in a message published on the occasion of the New Year.
Guterres has warned that we must “get off this road.” “We have no time to waste, Even in the darkest days I have seen hope and the power to change, I see hope in activists, young and old, raising their voices for progress,” he noted.
“I see hope in humanitarian heroes, overcoming enormous obstacles to support the most vulnerable. I see hope in developing countries, fighting for financial and climate justice. I see hope in scientists and innovators, breaking new ground for humanity. And I saw hope in September, when world leaders came together to adopt the pact for the future,” he added.
For the UN Secretary General, The pact “is a new impulse to build peace, disarm and avoid warto reform the global financial system so that it supports and represents all countries, to push for more opportunities for women and youth, to build guard ladders for technologies to put people on top of benefits and rights.”
“There are no guarantees for what is to come in 2025, but I promise to stand with all those who are working to build a more peaceful, equal, stable and just future for all people. Together we can make 2025 a new beginning. No as a divided world, but as the United Nations,” said Guterres.