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UN Environment Acting Executive Director issues forceful appeal ahead of UN Environment Assembly  智库新闻
时间:2019-03-06   作者: [unavailable]  来源:United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya)
  • UN Environment Acting Executive Director Joyce Msuya has issued an urgent call to action ahead of the Fourth UN Environment Assembly.
  • In a letter to UN Member States, Msuya appealed for courage and resolve in addressing climate change and other pressing challenges.
  • “What’s at stake,” she wrote, “is life, and society, as the majority of us know it and enjoy it today.”

Nairobi, Kenya, 6 March 2019: UN Environment Acting Executive Director Joyce Msuya has issued a forceful call to action ahead of the Fourth UN Environment Assembly, which will gather in Nairobi from 11-15 March.

“Time is running short,” Msuya wrote in a letter to United Nations Member States. “We are past pledging and politicking. We are past commitments with little accountability. What’s at stake is life, and society, as the majority of us know it and enjoy it today.”

Citing recent United Nations reports, Msuya stressed the urgency of addressing climate change and other pressing global challenges.

The call comes as environment ministers from across the globe prepare to travel to Nairobi to participate in the world’s highest-level environmental forum. Negotiations at the Fourth UN Environment Assembly are expected to tackle critical issues such as stopping food waste, promoting the spread of electric cars, and tackling the crisis of plastic pollution in our oceans, among many other pressing challenges.

“It is time for us to truly give shape to the fundamental transformations that will be required to sustain human life – transformations in our food systems, energy systems, waste systems, economic systems – and indeed our value systems,” Msuya wrote.

She outlined five key entry points for driving the transformative changes that the planet requires: circularity, a New Deal for Nature, cities, clean cooling and renewable energy.

“If we are able to drive systemic change across these areas, then we will contribute to lifting people out of poverty and building a safer, healthier and more equitable world. Because by protecting the planet – as we have seen on so many occasions – we are also protecting its people.”