“The world is not moving fast enough to deal with this crisis [climate change]. We have to accelerate with a sense of urgency,” Kirby, also a former US secretary of state, told Rudaw’s Sinan Tuncdemir on the sidelines of the 78th annual United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
“If we do not do these things [combat global warming], we will be seeing catastrophes unfold around the planet, so the urgency cannot be stressed enough,” he added.
The high-level week of the 78th annual UNGA commenced on Tuesday and will continue through next week. Hundreds of world leaders and delegates have gathered in New York to attend the event, with around 150 heads of states and governments set to deliver speeches.
The theme of this year’s summit is “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all.”
“There is a whole new economy of clean energy capacity, which will be the biggest marketplace the world has ever known,” he said.
