“Let’s use our remaining time in Egypt to build the bridges needed to make progress on 1.5, adaptation, finance and loss & damage”, said Simon Stiell.
“Today a new era begins – and we begin to do things differently,” UN climate chief Simon Stiell stated during the Conference’s opening session.
“Paris handed us the deal,” he reiterated. We received the blueprint from Glasgow and Katowice. The focus moves to implementation in Sharm El-Sheik. No one on this journey can be merely a passenger. This is a sign that the world has changed.
He also said, “We will be holding people to account – be they Presidents, Prime Ministers or CEOs, an Accountability-Chief, if you may. Because our policies, our businesses, our infrastructure, our actions, be they personal or public, must be aligned with the Paris Agreement and with the Convention.”