Stressing the impact of climate change on people’s lives,the United Nations here on Tuesday appealed all countries to reduce carbonemissions by 45 per cent by 2030.
Addressing mediapersons, Luis Alfonso de Alba, UNSecretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action Summit, said all countrieshad been asked to formulate plans and demonstrate that addressing climatechange issue was “possible”.
Leaders of all countries had been invited to the summit withconcrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally-determined contributionsby 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over thenext decade, and net zero emissions by 2050, he said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has convened thesummit in New York in September.
According to UN, the last four years were the four hotteston record, and winter temperatures in the Arctic have risen by 3 degreesCelsius since 1900.
Twenty-eight companies with $1.3 trillion marketcapitalisation were stepping up to set a new level of climate ambition in aresponse to a call to act ahead of the summit, Alba said.