Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/09/2019
All Day

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UN Headquarters

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres will host world leaders at the 2019 Climate Action Summit on 23 September in New York to boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This will follow the UN Youth Climate Summit on 21 September.

Global emissions are reaching record levels and show no sign of peaking. The last four years were the four hottest on record, and winter temperatures in the Arctic have risen by 3°C since 1990. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying, and we are starting to see the life-threatening impact of climate change on health, through air pollution, heatwaves and risks to food security.

Climate change is the defining issue of our time and now is the defining moment to do something about it. There is still time to tackle climate change, but it will require an unprecedented effort from all sectors of society. The Summit will showcase a leap in collective national political ambition and it will demonstrate massive movements in the real economy in support of the agenda. Together, these developments will send strong market and political signals and inject momentum in the “race to the top” among countries, companies, cities and civil society that is needed to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

More Information

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-climate-summit-2019.shtml