26 November 2023 Climate and Environment

There is an urgent request for a transformative displacement towards much sustainable transport the UN main said connected Sunday, emphasizing the value of cleaner vigor to combat clime change.

"This first World Sustainable Transport Day reminds america that the roadworthy to a amended aboriginal depends connected cleaner and greener proscription systems," Antonio Guterres explained, spotlighting the narration betwixt proscription and planetary sustainability.

Fuelling clime chaos

"Transportation represents the world’s circulatory system, delivering radical and goods crossed countries and astir the world, creating jobs, and supporting prosperity," Mr. Guterres said, underscoring the important diagnostic of proscription arsenic indispensable facilitator of quality development.

"But it is besides fuelling clime chaos," added the Secretary-General, acknowledging the sector's relation successful exacerbating the planetary clime crisis. 

The statistic are alarming: the transport assemblage is liable for astir a 4th of each greenhouse state emissions, portion 91 percent of the vigor utilized successful motorized transport by land, sea, and aerial is inactive derived from fossil fuels.

‘Up to the challenge’

Although the assemblage is heavy reliant connected fossil fuels, the Secretary-General expressed optimism astir humanity's quality to code the contented head-on.

"I americium convinced humanity is up to the situation of breaking our addiction to climate-killing fossil fuels," helium proclaimed, emphasizing the request for concerted efforts to modulation to sustainable alternatives. 

Mr. Guterres outlined a imaginativeness for a resilient, efficient, and low-carbon proscription future. 

"From electrical and solar-powered vehicles to renewable aviation substance sources, to monolithic investments successful greenish nationalist proscription systems, to measures similar c pricing and subsidies for low-carbon fuels," helium outlined a strategy towards greater sustainability.

"There is nary clip to waste. Let’s get moving," urged the Secretary-General.

Sustainable transportation, policies and innovative technologies volition beryllium beforehand and centre astatine the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, that begins successful Dubai connected November 30.