UN World Climate Conference: Queen calls for actions instead of words in the climate crisis (video)

In a speech at the UN World Climate Conference, Queen Elizabeth once again called on the heads of state and government to do more instead of words when it comes to climate protection. The 95-year-old gave her speech in the form of a video message because doctors had previously advised her not to go to the conference. “It is sometimes said that what leaders are doing for their people today is government and politics. But what they are doing for the people of tomorrow – that is true statecraft. For my part, I hope that this conference will be one of the rare occasions will be where everyone seizes the chance and rises above the politics of the moment and performs true statecraft. Many hope that the legacy of this historic summit will describe you as the leaders who seized the opportunity and the reputation of the future Generations have followed. They left this conference as a community of nations with a determination, desire, and plan to address the effects of climate change and to realize that the time for words has now given way to time for action All of us here today will enjoy the benefits of such actions: w e, none of us, will live forever. But we don’t do this for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren and those who will follow in their footsteps. “At the start of the World Climate Conference, heads of state and government of leading countries promised a faster pace in the fight against global warming – but at the same time demanded more from its economic competitors. The USA had asked the world’s largest CO2 producer China to do more. President Xi Jinping, who had not traveled to Glasgow, in turn demanded a written declaration from industrialized countries not only to do more, But also to help the poorer countries more. In addition, India is criticized for wanting to be climate neutral only in the year 2070, which goes against the idea of ​​Greta Thunberg and the movement she founded Fridays For Future. Thunberg also threw the COP- Host Britain pleaded not to take climate protection seriously enough, and said politicians would only pretend to do the Take the future of the next generations seriously.