Speaking at this year’s Vienna Energy Forum, UN Deputy Secretary
General Amina Mohammed said that achieving the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goal on energy, with its targets on universal access, energy
efficiency and renewable energy, is central to both the UN’s global
goals, and achieving the central goal of the Paris Climate Change
Agreement, which is to limit the maximum global average temperature rise
to as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement are mutually reinforcing and
inseparable. And it is why Member States have overwhelmingly endorsed
both. Implementing the 2030 Agenda and addressing climate change must go
hand-in-hand,” she said.
The UN Deputy Secretary General also warned that time is running out,
and that climate change impacts, driven by globally rising
temperatures, are accelerating. Because of this, the Paris Agreement
needs to be rapidly implemented and clean energy scaled up:
“Droughts, floods, high heat, extreme weather, and rising seas are
displacing people as never before and putting lives and livelihoods in
jeopardy. And there is a real humanitarian cost, climate impacts have
already incurred huge expense for business owners and the insurance
industry. No country or sector is immune,” she said.
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