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March 10, 2020 "Both coronavirus and climate change are very serious problems, both require a determined response and both must be defeated. But one thing is a disease that we all expect to be temporary, with an impact that we expect to be temporary. An ' another thing is climate change, which has been around for many years, will remain with us for decades, and requires constant action. "

So the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, answered the question about the possible effects of the virus on the fight against climate change.

"I think we shouldn't overestimate the fact that emissions have been reduced for a few months - he added - We will not fight climate change with a virus." Furthermore, "it is important that the attention that must be paid to combat this disease does not distract us from the need to defeat climate change and to address all the other problems the world is facing."

Guterres assured us that "we will do our best to be effective as a United Nations in support of member states and people by containing and eliminating the disease as quickly as possible", but this "does not in any way change our determination in relation to climate change and the need to have the Cop26 in Glasgow with the commitments necessary to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 ". "My hope - he concluded - is that people will be able to commit to both objectives with the same strong political will".