French
President
Emmanuel Macron, World Bank Group President
Jim Yong Kim,
and UN Secretary-General
António Guterres today will address the
ecological emergency for our planet by calling together in Paris international
leaders and committed citizens from around the world, according to One Planet
Summit. European Commission Vice President for Energy Union
Maroš Šefčovič
will also attend the summit.
Macron
hopes will give fresh impetus to the fight against global warming, despite US
President
Donald Trump‘ s rejection of the Paris climate accord.
For two
years to the day after the historic Paris Agreement, it is time for concrete
action, the summit said, adding that many stakeholders are already taking
action: projects illustrating the ongoing transition will be presented. Much
remains to be done to achieve our goals: commitments will be made.
The Summit’s
three key words — adaptation, mitigation, mobilisation — will be discussed in
the afternoon and each promoted by one of the three co-organisers: Guterres,
Macron and Kim. The One Planet Summit is an alliance of hundreds of global
leaders from all sectors, determined to demonstrate the power of collective
action in addressing such a global issue as the fight against climate change.
The aim is to find new means of financing the adaptation of our ways of life to
inevitable transformations, of further speeding up the reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions, and ensuring climate issues are central to the finance sector.
The
consequences of climate change affect everyone, so it is up to each and every
stakeholder in society to act. More than 50 speakers: NGOs, entrepreneurs,
investors, government members, local stakeholders and scientists will meet to
take action around the four round tables of the One Planet Summit morning. The
goal is to identify and implement tangible solutions and mobilize public and private
funding to enable large-scale deployment – including in the most vulnerable
countries.
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