Low-lying island nation Vanuatu intensified its campaign this week to persuade the world to concentrate on battling global warming by advocating for a fossil fuel nonproliferation pact during the annual meeting of world leaders at the UN.
On Friday, September 23, Vanuatu’s President Nikenike Vurobaravu warned the United Nations General Assembly that “the time is up and action is needed immediately.”
The agreement would strive to reduce coal, oil, and gas production in order to keep global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
The leader of the carbon-negative nation added that it would “allow a global just transition for every worker, community, and nation with fossil fuel dependence.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N. climate science panel, has issued a warning that global emissions are on course to exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit and reach about 3.2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
Vanuatu has also requested that the International Court of Justice issue a ruling on the legal entitlement to protection from the harmful effects of climate change. According to Vurobaravu, this action “is not a panacea for increasing climate action, but only one tool to get us closer to the end goal of a safe planet for humanity.”
Large areas of Pakistan were devastated by floods this month, which claimed more than 1,500 lives and left $30 billion in damage. Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, questioned why his countrymen were suffering as a result of global warming.
“There has never been a more glaring and tragic illustration of how global warming is having an effect on Pakistan. In Pakistan, life has altered drastically “To the General Assembly, Sharif spoke.”Without considering our carbon impact, nature has unleashed her wrath on Pakistan.”
