World leaders pledge to tackle climate change at summit

On Thursday, leaders from dozens of countries and organizations participating in the Leaders Summit on Climate via video conference pledged action and called for solidarity in the fight against climate change.

At the summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasized the importance of climate change, urging international communities to transform commitments into tangible, urgent steps. He urged all countries to form a global alliance for carbon neutrality, with a more aggressive aim to make a significant change in the next ten years, aligned with a net-zero roadmap by 2050.

We need a green planet while the world is on red alert," he said, "We must make sure the next step in the right direction. 

"So far, only 18 to 24 percent of pandemic recovery spending is expected to contribute to mitigating emissions, reducing air pollution, or strengthening natural capital." 

Guterres said the trillions of dollars needed for COVID-19 recovery "is money we are borrowing from future generations." he said.

"We cannot use these resources to lock in policies that burden them with a mountain of debt on a broken planet."

According to the UN chief, all leaders must work together to "overcome climate change, end our war on nature, and create lives of dignity and prosperity for all," according to the UN chief.

During the meeting, hundreds of country leaders expressed their commitment to help combat climate change.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed China's climate commitments to strictly limit its coal consumption and strive to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

U.S. President Joe Biden promised that America would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "by half" from 2005 levels in this decade. "We have to take actions, all of us," he said.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised his nation's target for greenhouse gas reductions to 40 to 45 percent by 2030.

"If we are going to combat climate change sustainably, we have to deal with the tragedy of habitat destruction and species loss across the world," said Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 

According to Johnson, people must be "constantly original and hopeful about emerging technology and new ideas," in order to achieve the target".