The United Nations Secretary-General has convened a Climate Ambition Summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 20 September 2023 to accelerate action by governments, business, finance, local authorities and civil society, and hear from “first movers and doers.”
According to the UN Environment Program “the Summit represents a critical political milestone for demonstrating that there is collective global will to accelerate the pace and scale of a just transition to a more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy.”
Missing from the list of 34 speakers representing countries at the Summit are the world’s biggest emitters China and United States, as well as the United Arab Emirates, the host of the COP28 gathering in December. (Reuters) Whereas Indian newspaper The Hindu claims that India has also been omitted from the list of invitees.
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that one of the aims was to spur action from countries and companies whose climate plans were not in line with the global climate target.
A report released by the UN earlier this month said existing national pledges to cut emissions were insufficient to keep temperatures within the 1.5 C threshold. More than 20 giga tones of further CO2 reductions were needed this decade – and global net zero by 2050 – in order to meet the goals.
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