The UN Climate Summit, which started in New York at 4pm (Spanish peninsular time), has already produced a first and important result. A total of 66 governments have pledged on Monday to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, said the United Nations, an alliance that regions, cities and companies are joining.
The leaders of governments, companies and civil society today debate potentially powerful steps to address climate change at the Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
"Nature is angry, and we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature," Guterres said in his speech, with which the meeting began.
"We are at the beginning of a mass extinction," activist Greta Thunberg has warned. "And all you can do is talk about eternal economic growth."
As carbon pollution, rising temperatures and weather destruction continue to rise, and public reaction increases, today's Summit in New York is offered as a "turning point," according to the UN, to inertia and the global climate impact, but provided there are many countries united in this direction.
The UN estimates that the world would need to increase its efforts three to five times to contain climate change, curb the increase in warming to 1.5 degrees maximum, and prevent the increase in climate damage that is already occurring worldwide .
Many countries use the Summit to demonstrate the next steps on how by 2020 they will update their Nationally Determined Contributions in order to collectively reduce emissions by at least 45% by 2030 and prepare national strategies to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of the century.
This is an alliance that brings together nations to improve action in 2020, as well as those that work to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.
59 nations have expressed their intention to present an improved climate action plan (or NDC), and nine others have started an internal project to boost ambition and make this reflected in their national plans.
In terms of the so-called "group 2050", the UN has reported that 66 governments are committed to zero emissions, to which 10 regions, 102 cities, 93 companies and 12 investors join.
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