Stop 'killing' the earth, environmentalists protest at UN
The United Nations General Assembly session in New York, United States, is discussing various crises in the world. In the meantime, environmental activists have started protesting in front of the UN headquarters.
Addressing the world leaders participating in the session, they are chanting 'Stop 'killing' the world''. They called on the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to stop the destruction of the Amazon forest. News from CNN.
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly began in New York on Monday (September 19). The heads of state and government of various countries have joined this global conference after almost three years of the corona epidemic.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are not attending the session due to special reasons. Ministers are representing them in the session instead.
According to local media reports, environmental activists began gathering in New York on climate issues before the session began.
Many of them are indigenous to Latin America, especially Brazil. They have been demonstrating in front of the consulates of different countries and the UN headquarters in New York since last week.
climate crisis Climate crisis is gaining importance in this session with Ukraine crisis. At the beginning of the session, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged everyone to work together to deal with these crises. At the same time, he also called for taxation on fossil fuel companies to deal with the energy crisis.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered the opening speech at the General Assembly session at the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday (September 20). At this time, he urged everyone to work together to deal with the global economic recession and energy crisis due to the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Guterres said, in the current context, no crisis can be solved by anyone alone. Mutual cooperation and dialogue is the only way to solve the crisis. No matter how big the global crisis is, it is possible to get rid of it with the united efforts of all.
In addition, the UN Secretary General advised rich countries to impose taxes on fossil fuel companies. At the same time, he urged the countries affected by climate change and in crisis due to the increase in energy prices to use the funds collected from that tax.
UN Secretary-General says our world is addicted to fossil fuels. Time to intervene. Fossil fuel companies must be held accountable. Every country should give utmost importance to this issue.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, French President Emmanuel Macron and other heads of state of the world also spoke on the global recession and energy crisis and the way to solve it.
