Environment The official opening of the international climate summit in Poland today, was accompanied by a series of dramatic warnings. “We’re not in the right direction, to the global warming to stop”, said the secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of the United Nations in Katowice. The British tv-maker David Attenborough has called climate change “the greatest threat to mankind in thousands of years”.
“Even though we are witnessing the devastating impact of climate chaos caused all over the world, yet we don’t do enough, we are not going fast enough”, said Guterres. “The global warming goes faster than us and we need catching up before it’s too late. For many people, regions, and even countries, this is already a matter of life or death”. the
“And therefore”, so went Guterres continued, “is it so hard to understand why we all so slow to progress, and even then in the wrong direction”.
global Warming is a matter of life or death and we are going in the wrong direction
Secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of the United Nations
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Also, the British tv producer and naturalist David Attenborough was speaking at the top. He called climate change the greatest threat to mankind in thousands of years. “The survival of our civilizations and the natural world we depend on, is in your hands”, said Attenborough told the assembled world leaders. “Leaders of the world, you must lead (staatsleiders, you must lead, red.)”, says the Brit. The 92-year-old Attenborough believes that an obligation of his generation compared to the young people.
Attenborough was in an interview with news agency Reuters also looks at the decision of American president Donald Trump to get out of the climate deal by Paris. According to him, the US “out on a limb (they are only, red.)”. “But that should us and the rest of the world do not harm”, says the creator of Blue Planet II. Last week beat Trump a report of his own government, in the wind that suggested that climate change would have a major impact on the U.s. economy.
Protest
In the run-up to the top there were klimaatoptochten in different countries, as well as Sunday in Brussels. The top in Poland is important because the implementation of the Unfccc Paris 2015 in specific rules should be cast.
