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United Nations, Sep 10 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged countries to use recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic to tackle climate change."We have a choice: business as usual, leading to further calamity; or we can use the recovery from Covid-19 to provide a real opportunity to put the world on a sustainable path," he said in a joint press conference with the chief of the World Meteorological Organization on Wednesday for the launch of "United in Science 2020", a multi-agency report of the latest climate science."Our world remains off track far off track to meet the objective of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. If things would remain as they are, we would go up 3 to 5 degrees above the pre-industrial level," Xinhua news agency reported citing the UN chief as saying.As the report emphasizes, short-term lockdowns in response to Covid-19 are no substitute for the sustained climate action needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, he said."There is no time to delay if we are to slow the trend and limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. Climate action is the only way to ensure a liveable planet for this and future generations."As the world works to tackle both the pandemic and the climate crisis, he urged leaders to heed the facts in the report, unite behind the science and take urgent climate action.Guterres called on governments to prepare new and ambitious national climate plans, the Nationally Determined Contributions, in advance of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference.He called for six climate-related actions to shape the recovery.First, as countries spend huge amounts of money to recover from the coronavirus, they must deliver new jobs and businesses through a clean, green transition.Second, where taxpayers' money is used to rescue businesses, it needs to be tied to achieving green jobs and sustainable growth.Third, fiscal firepower must drive a shift from the grey to the green economy and make societies and people more resilient.Fourth, public funds should be used to invest in the future, not the past, and flow to sustainable sectors and projects that help the environment and the climate.Fossil fuel subsidies must end, polluters must pay for their pollution, and no new coal power plants should be built.Fifth, climate risks and opportunities must be incorporated into the financial system, as well as all aspects of public policy-making and infrastructure.Sixth, there is a need to work together as an international community.Guterres described the report as "a catalogue of a climate crisis that is worsening by the hour". ( With inputs from IANS )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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