As we may already know, we're not suffering an economic crisis only, our ecology is in crisis too. Are you helping our world to heal? World leaders are, we should be too.
World leaders have been occupied looking for answers to improve our environmental situation. They had had several meetings at the General Assembly in which they have done great progress arguing about major issues as:
- Economic Crisis
- Nuclear Disarmament: "We continue the march for a world without nuclear weapons.” -Council
- Climate Change
Some of the points they talked about in climate changes are:
- The need to limit the global average temperature rise to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius with most vulnerable countries pushing for an even more stringent 1.5-degree limit.
- China said it would be prepared to take additional actions to reduce energy intensity in the context of an international agreement.
- They should be 5 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020.
- “At long last, leaders focused on climate change financing and got more concrete, with many expressing support for the proposal for $100 billion annually over the next decade for concrete adaptation and mitigation actions,” Mr. Ban said.
The European Union is also involved. Mr. Ban announced its support for a fast track funding facility for adaptation and their readiness to provide €5 billion to €7 billion to get it started.
*Mr. Ban Ki-moon: General Secretary of the United Nations
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