President Sahle-Work Zewde spoke at the Climate Vulnerability Forum. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh who is also President of the forum convened the leaders’ summit to galvanize support and commitment for world leaders on the ambitious and vital goal of meeting the “Survival Deadline”.
The President said “Time is not on our side. Countries need to ambitiously respond to the ‘Survival Deadline’ for humankind, December 2020. It marks a crucial deadline for responding to the gravity of the situations faced by more than 1 billion of the most vulnerable people living on the frontline of a worsening climate crisis. It also epitomizes our only chance to keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement within reach.”
The President said “Time is not on our side. Countries need to ambitiously respond to the ‘Survival Deadline’ for humankind, December 2020. It marks a crucial deadline for responding to the gravity of the situations faced by more than 1 billion of the most vulnerable people living on the frontline of a worsening climate crisis. It also epitomizes our only chance to keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement within reach.”