translated from Spanish: Minister Schmidt met with UN Secretary-General for COP25

Un-United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres had a meeting with Minister of Medium Ambionte, Carolina Schmidt, and gave a press conference accompanied by UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, where she made a to increase the ambition and commitment of the countries that will meet from tomorrow COP25.” Climate disasters are becoming more frequent, more lethal, more destructive, with higher human and financial costs. In some regions of the world, drought is advancing at an alarming rate, destroying human habitats and jeopardizing food security. Each year, air pollution, associated with climate change, claims seven million lives. Climate change has become a dramatic threat to human health and safety,” Guterres said, Schmidt said: “The effects of climate change are obvious. Heat waves, floods, wildfires, thaws, droughts are realities that affect the lives of all the inhabitants of this planet. That is why we need countries to make concrete and more ambitious commitments at this COP that will allow us to reduce emissions globally. Today It is time to act is not a slogan, but a real necessity, an ethical demand.” I have deep hopes that COP25 will be able to agree on the guidelines for the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Unfortunately this was not achieved in Katowice. This agreement will establish a strong basis for international cooperation to reduce emissions and enable greater private sector participation in climate action,” the UN Executive Secretary added. After the meeting, the environment owner with Patricia Espinosa toured the plenary where tomorrow Schmidt will formally assume the presidency of COP25 representing Chile.” The role of the presidency is to lead, facilitate, and build consensus among countries to adopt common goals. The climate crisis affects developing countries very differently than developed countries, but we must tackle it globally. The presidency must facilitate agreements between these very different realities, in order to deal multilaterally with climate change,” Schmidt said Tomorrow at 08:00 hours Chile’s work as president begins, and will continue until December 2020, when COP26 is held in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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