The United Nations leader on Thursday suggested that Japan and other wealthy countries give up their dependence on coal and other fossil fuels and dedicate themselves to making an investment in green energy as they emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called in a speech to a weather convention in Japan.
Guterres noted that many countries are taking advantage of the pandemic’s opportunity to double green energy and other initiatives, with the aim of restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average.
“We are facing two critical crises, COVID and climate change,” he said in pre-recorded statements.He said he hoped the assembly would “leave future generations in the hope that this moment will be the real turning point for other people and the planet.”
The main United Nations climate replacement convention scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, was postponed until November due to the pandemic.Called COP26, it will be held there in early November 2021.
Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has spearheaded an initiative called the Online Platform for Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from COVID-19, or “Platform for 2020 Redesign.” It states that it is a center that combines the climate and environmental policies and movements of countries that are planned and implemented in the context of the recovery from COVID-19.
Guterres noted that Japan’s complex generation in many spaces makes it a leader in the transition to renewable force and suggested it to avoid reversing the structure of coal-fired power plants.
The main priorities, he said, are prioritizing “green” work, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and taking energy and climate replacement issues into account in all decisions.
“Clean energy creates more jobs, cleaner air, fitness, and stronger economic growth,” Guterres said.
“There is no economic point in spending cash on coal-fired power plants that will soon block assets,” he added.”There is simply no rational argument for coal strength in an investment plan.”
Japan reduced its ambitions for renewable force after the March 2011 nuclear earthquake, tsunami and collapse in northeastern Tohoku, leading it to close its nuclear power plants for protection reviews.
Some have rebooted but most have not. Meanwhile, the country has compensated for the loss of electricity generation capacity by expanding the use of coal, oil and gas, expanding the use of solar energy, and reducing waste.
The government has also sought to export its experience and generation to finance the structure of coal-fired power plants.
Guterres said the goals of halving global emissions by 2030 and achieving “carbon neutrality” until 2050, key to restricting global warming, were achievable, “but now we are on the right track.”
He suggested that countries attending the convention propose more ambitious plans and long-term methods before COP26 next year.
In comments published on the Redesign Platform 2020 website, Japan’s Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the effort aims at countries “redefining their economic and social systems in this time of double crisis.”
The pandemic has slowed maximum activities, he noted, but “climate change leaves us no time to waste.”
“Our task is to return to the world before the pandemic, but to rebuild better,” he said.
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