Climate Summit, Guterres: "If we do not change our lifestyle we are at risk". Surprisingly, Trump arrives

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"If we don't urgently change our style of street, we will put our own life at risk." Thus the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, speaking of the obligation that the leaders have to face the climate crisis in his opening speech of the special summit on Climate that takes place today at the Palace of Glass, on the eve of the opening of the debate to the General Assembly. "Nature is angry," Guterres said, urging leaders to participate in the summit "not with good speeches, but with concrete actions" aimed at abandoning fossil fuels and decreasing global temperature growth.

Soon after, the intervention of Greta Thunberg. The muse of the Fridays for Future movement has addressed harsh words to the leaders present.

Greta Thunberg: "You stole my dreams and childhood"
"You stole my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," said the 16-year-old Swedish activist. "We are disappointed, but young people are beginning to understand your betrayal, the eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail we will never forgive you" he added, stressing that "the world is waking up and change is coming, whether you like it or not ". "People are suffering - he added - people are dying, whole ecosystems are collapsing".

And on the day when Russia announces the ratification of the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump arrives by surprise, and late, at the Glass Palace, after days of uncertainty about his presence. Let us remember that the Trump administration withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement.

The tenant of the White House, who lost both the intervention of Guterres and that of Greta, took place next to the vice president Mike Pence and the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, applauding the intervention of the Indian president, Narendra Modi. India is among the countries that have not signed the Paris agreement.

66 States adhere to the 'zero emissions' target by 2050
Meanwhile, sixty-six states have joined the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. The United Nations announced it today, just before the opening of the climate summit. These 66 countries are added to 10 regions, 102 cities and 93 companies that are committed to achieving the "zero emissions" target by the middle of the century; a goal set by scientists to contain global warming, within the limits set by the 2015 Paris agreement.

"The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but we can win it," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Among the other UN announcements: 68 countries have pledged to formally revise their climate plans by 2020, when the 195 signatories to the Paris agreement should present new commitments. Furthermore, 30 countries are now joining an alliance that promises to stop building coal-fired power plants by 2020.

"Italy is fully committed to implementing the Paris agreement: through the reorientation towards renewable energies, we have reduced the cumulative emissions by Co2 260 million above our objective" the Farnesina communicated in a tweet.

Conte: Italy wants to have a leadership position in the green turn
On the subject of climate change "Italy wants a leadership position in Europe and in the world towards a green turn" said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during a press point on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "In the maneuver - he added - we are working to orient the production system towards the 'green new deal' through incentive mechanisms".



Russia ratifies the Paris agreement
The Russian Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev, has announced that he has signed the resolution for the ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change. "It is important that our country participates in this process," he said in a meeting with the vice premier, "the threat of climate change could compromise the environmental balance, jeopardizing the successful development of many key sectors, such as agriculture, and above all the security of our people who live on permafrost and increase natural disasters ". Medvedev then reported that he had already ordered regulations to adapt the Paris Agreement to Russian law. According to Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Gordeyev, the document will be ready by 2020.