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UN Chief: More "clean energy" vital to combat "catastrophic" warming
03.11.2017 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, while speaking within a symposium on how global energy interconnects with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN Chief António Guterres has said the world needs greater clean and renewable energy resources to combat the current «catastrophic» level of global warming, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, Guterres described energy as «the golden thread» that connects all of the SDGs.
«Modern energy services are integral to poverty reduction, food security, public health and quality education for all. They are the key to sustainable industrialization, healthier more efficient cities and of course successful climate action. Despite this understanding, the world is still far from achieving the vision of Sustainable Development Goal 7, of affordable and clean energy for all,» he said.
As to the report, the UN Chief also said it was imperative that parties to the Paris Agreement on climate change worked harder to meet the target of keeping global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celcius.
At the moment, he added, the world was on track for a «catastrophic» rise of 3 degrees, or more.
He admitted the symposium could help provide answers to the challenge of leaving no-one behind, enshrined in the ambitious SDGs.
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