United Nations: Guterres warns ‘we are on the edge of an abyss’

The world has never been more threatened or more divided, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told nations of the world on Tuesday as he kicked off the 76th General Assembly session, urging all 193 member states to “wake up” and realise that solidarity is the only way out of disaster.

“We are on the edge of an abyss,” Guterres said to an assembly hall meeting together for the first time since last year’s suspended in-person session due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetimes.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has supersized inequalities, the climate crisis is pummeling the planet, upheavals in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Yemen have thwarted peace and a surge of misformation is polarizing people everywhere.

“Human rights are under fire. Science is under assault. And economic lifelines for the most vulnerable are coming too little and too late —if they come at all,” the UN chief said.

While vaccines have been developed in record time, they are missing for far too many people.

“A surplus in some countries. Empty shelves in others,” he said. “This is a moral indictment of the state of our world. It is an obscenity. We passed the science test. But we are getting an F in Ethics.”

More than 90 percent of Africans are still waiting for their first dose, he added, calling for a global vaccination plan to ensure that vaccines reach 70 percent of the world’s population in the first half of 2022.

The secretary-general sounded the alarm on global warming as well, citing a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the vivid warning signs sweeping every continent.

“As we saw recently, not even this city — the financial capital of the world — is immune,” he said, referring to the deadly remnants of Hurricane Ida that ravaged New York earlier in September.

The window to keep alive the 1.5-degree-Celcius (2.7-degree F) goal of the Paris Climate Agreement is quickly closing, Guterres warned, and urged the world to commit to a 45 percent cut in emissions by 2030.

Citing a recent UN report that predicted emissions to go up by 16 percent by 2030, he said that would condemn the world to a “hellscape of temperature rises”.

“We are weeks away from the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow, but seemingly light years away from reaching our targets,” he said.

Developing countries must finally see the promised $100bn a year for climate action, said the UN chief. Taxing carbon and pollution instead of people’s income would encourage the switch to sustainable green jobs and ending subsidies to fossil fuels would allocate funds to invest back in education, renewable energy and social protections.

“The people we serve and represent may lose faith not only in their governments and institutions — but in the values that have animated the work of the United Nations for over 75 years,” Guterres warned.

The Secretary-General’s Common Agenda, which builds on the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Paris Climate Agreement, is a tool to bring the UN forward, he added.

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Truly the world is drifting towards the precipice. Strange things happening everyday. Oya OP switch to your Righteousness moniker and give us another long epistle

Ok

If we don’t get this coronavirus under control, I just wonder how deadly it could get if the virus continues to mutate because of unvaccinated people.

Damnnn niggar
This things were happening before

Lets not make a mountain out of a mohill

Even worse during the time of our forefathers
Then there were no means of dissemination
spreading these barbaric information widely or to a wide audience

In the past way he be say fighting, conquering of people's land, war, cannibalism, pestilence and all sorts of evil dey exist.....

Meanwhile bubu is busy with cow and Ruga

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Pastor righteousness, over to you

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misinformation aka conspiracy theories.

Mr100Dollars:
Waiting for Nairaland Sunday School Teacher aka Righteous to come and masturbate on this thread

He is the same person as holinessforever (the OP).

Cowards

Like this post for no reason

Someone should notify us when Buhari is speaking.

I am interested in whatever he has to tell the world.

So to that guy that quoted me on another thread on prophecy of the bible, I hope you can hear what I was also saying from the UN general himself.

Ike gwuru

Make God do conclude this world, make man pikin go rest!


The corrupt and the greed will heisting the the world extinct by x raise to power 5.

Xscape047:
Una Sef..follow scatter this world ....


Humans against Humanities

Abyss means different things to different countries.

Abyss in developed countries means climate change, conspiracy theories (science and good reasoning under assault) and inequality.

In Nigeria. Abyss is the rampant beheading for rituals and yahoo plus, poverty in the land, Fulani herdsmen and bandits kidnapping and killing up and down.

Ogbeni Rest!!!! ounpe if Earth and the world is destroyed.....

Mars dey there,we go relocate and Japa there,wetin go pain me pass na if some people don reach there already dey claim OMO-ONILE

Righteousness2:
Except you wanna Deceive yourself, it so clear to all that the World is Sinking Fast.
The World has reached the point of no return.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hear this!Things are only gonna get Worse.
Normal is not coming back! JESUS is Coming!

I advice and Admonish all to Let go of your Earthly ties, Repent, Make Peace with JESUS Christ and Live Ready, so as to be among those who will be Snatched out of this Sinking World.

Only with JESUS that we can be Saved from the Dangers ahead.

I hope you live long. So that when you are old and grey and taking your last breath, as your life flashes before your eyes, you can ask yourself why Jesus still didn't come despite your scaremongering. I am sure that for a split second you will wish you had applied your life to more sensible pursuits.

Though you will still deceive yourself that despite losing all and being inconsequential in this life, there is a mansion waiting for you after you die where you will fare better than the people who made better choices than you in this life. Unfortunately for you, your saviour told his followers who were with him that they won't taste death before the world ends but they all did. And here we are over 2000 years later. If there's an afterlife, I assure you it's very likely your type still won't fare any better there.

Ok

Who will die will die.
If you're to live you will live, all what you have to do is to live a good live and catch enough fun, don't live a boring live.