Greta Thunberg, world leaders call for action at UN Climate Action summit 2019

24 Sep 2019

Greta Thunberg, world leaders call for action at UN Climate Action summit 2019

Greta Thunberg, world leaders call for action at UN Climate Action summit 2019Climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a powerful and emotionally-charged speech at the UN Climate Action Summit.

Ms Thunberg told the participating member nations that the future generation will never forgive them if they fail to act on climate change effectively now.
 	She cited incidents of collapsing ecosystems, mass extinctions, and an increasing amount of carbon emissions which has made the situation completely unacceptable.
 	Ms Thunberg and 15 other children also filed a complaint charging that Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey had violated their human rights by failing to halt the climate crisis. These 5 countries allow such complaints to be brought against them under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty.

Leaders of many countries also spoke on climate crisis at the Summit.

66 countries, 93 companies and more than 100 cities committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
 	Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and others, doubled their current pledges to the Green Climate Fund. This fund helps developing countries in their climate efforts.
 	The Marshall Islands declared a “climate crisis” and updated its commitments to try to reach the target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
 	Germany and Slovakia along with New Jersey (US) and Puerto Rico (US) have promised to stop opening new coal plants after 2020.

Prime Minister Narender Modi in his speech, promised to double the renewable energy capacity in India by 2022. In addition to this, he pledged to bring the non-fossil fuel target to 400 gigawatts.

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