본 연설은 2024년 6월 12일 안토니오 구테흐스 UN사무총장이 언론을 통해 다가오는 G7 정상회의에 대해 이야기하는 연설입니다.
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Glossary
1. The European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service:
유럽 위원회의 코페르니쿠스 기후 변화 서비스
2. the World Meteorological Organisation: 세계 기상기구
3. United Nations Security Council: 유엔 안전 보장 이사회
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Dear members of the press,
It is wonderful to be back in Geneva.
I have just come from Jordan, where the United Nations co-hosted a conference on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
From here I will go to the G7 Summit in Italy.
My message is very clear: This is a critical time.
We face profound global challenges on multiple fronts.
And the G7 leaders have a particular responsibility.
First, on climate.
We’re reaping the whirlwind of climate inaction – with devastating floods, fires, droughts and heat.
The European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported last week that May 2024 was the hottest May ever recorded.
That makes twelve straight months of the hottest months ever.
And the World Meteorological Organisation reported an eighty per cent chance that global annual average temperature will cross 1.5 degrees Celsius in at least one of the next five years.
In 2015, the chance of such a breach was near zero.
The window for action is rapidly closing.
Countries must deliver new national climate plans by next year. Those plans must align with the international community’s commitment to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees.
That means a just global phase out of fossil fuels – which account for 85% of global emissions.
And the biggest countries have a responsibility to go furthest, fastest.
For the G7 that means committing to end coal power by 2030.
It means creating fossil-fuel free power systems, and cutting supply and demand for oil and gas by sixty percent – by 2035.
And it means supporting a just global transition to clean energy.
Globally, renewables are booming.
But many countries are being left in the dark.
Developing and emerging economies outside China have seen clean energy investments stuck at the same levels since 2015.
Africa was home to less than one percent of last year’s renewables installations, despite its wealth of resources and its vast potential.
We need advanced economies to rally behind the emerging and developing ones:
To show climate solidarity by providing the technological and financial support, they need to cut emissions.
We need a clear commitment from the G7 on doubling finance for adaptation by next year, and closing the adaptation finance gap. And the G7 Adaptation Accelerator Hub must be translated into concrete action by COP29 this year.
We also need more systemic change.
That is the second area for G7 action.
Our international financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional and unfair.
The rich are over-represented; the poor are under served.
It needs reform so that it better represents developing countries and responds to their needs;
Reform that substantially increases the lending capacity of multilateral development banks;
And reforms that change their business model – so that they can provide far more finance for climate action and sustainable development and leverage massive amounts of private finance.
This is particularly important for African countries some of whom spend more on average on servicing their debt than on health, education and infrastructure combined.
Let’s not forget it is an embarrassment that Africa still has no permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council.
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