Praises the scientists but he has a warning too. As with celebrate this achievement, we are not carried away with over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over. It is not. Jabs at racecourses that could be used in the biggest logistical operation the country has seen. This will take a while before having changes, but we are hopeful that this is the beginning of the end of this very difficult year that we have had. 55 Million People go to the strictest tears in england as new restrictions replace the Second National lockdown. And head of a crucial yearfor the globalfight against and head of a crucial yearfor the global fight against Climate Change, my colleague isjoined by global fight against Climate Change, my colleague is joined by activists from around the world and other special guests for a Discussion Programme about the challenges ahead and how to resolve them. We are about to be given a warning like we have never heard before. Our planet is broken and humanity is waging waron planet is broken and humanity is waging war on nature, nature is striking back with growing force in fury. That morning from the un secretary. The evidence of Climate Change is all around us we are living in a world where apocalyptic fires and floods choking air pollution and droughts are the new normal. The secretary general says now is the time for urgent action if we are to bring the planet back from the point of no return. His words, comes this year, it is one of the warmest on record. So, lets hear now from the secretary general of the planet. Dear friends of the planet, i think the bbc for inviting us. Planet, i think the bbc for inviting us. Let us face facts, the state of our planet is broken. Humanity is waging waron our planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature and this is suicidal. Nature always strikes back is doing so with Gathering Force in fury. Biodiversity is collapsing, hazards of spreading, oceans are choking with plastic weights and the city left more lotion than fish. The coral reefs that support life for 500 Million People are dying. And Water Pollution is killing 9 Million People every year. The last decade was the hottest on record, the arctic ice was the lowest ever and apocalyptic fires and floods cyclones and hurricanes are the new normal. Covid 19 lockdowns may have temporarily reduced emissions, but Carbon Dioxide levels are at record levels and rising. Every attempts of a degree of warming makes a world of difference. Today, where 1. 2 degrees hotter with difference. Today, where1. 2 degrees hotter with unprecedented climate extremes in volatility. Without concerted action, we may be headed towards a catastrophic temperature rise the century. The science is clear. Unless the cuts for production of 6 every year between now and 2030, things will get worse, much worse it instead, we are on track to go up by 2 each year. We are going in the wrong direction. So, dearfriends, are going in the wrong direction. So, dear friends, making are going in the wrong direction. So, dearfriends, making peace with nature must be priority one for the zist nature must be priority one for the 21st century. The recovery from the pandemic offers a chance. We see hopein pandemic offers a chance. We see hope in the covid 19 vaccine but there is no vaccine for the planet. 0n the determined action by us can prevent this disaster. Nature needs a bailout, we need to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2015 in the uk and european unions, if committed to do so,japan, the european unions, if committed to do so, japan, the republic of korea and ten countries have done the same. And the United States administration. China has pledged to get there before 2060. We have to turn this momentum into a movement in the central objective for 2021 is to build a truly Global Coalition for Carbon Neutrality. Every country, city, Financial Institution and company should adopt plants or transitions and take Decisive Action now to put themselves in the right path which means cutting global emissions by 45 by 2030 compared to 2010 levels. It is time to put a price on carbon, to phase out fossil fuel finance and subsidies, to stop building new coal power plants and shift it from taxpayers to polluters. Make tight daddy make disclosures mandatory and the goal of urban neutrality into all fiscal policies and decisions. We face an emergency but i have hope at least these advances show we can do. Mindsets are shifting, led by young people and this is the moment of truth. If we return to our old ways of inequality and keep this dominion over the hurts, we face disaster. Instead, we can forge a safer, more sustainable and equitable path. We have the agenda for Sustainable Development in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Now, we must declare a permanent cease fire and reconcile with nature. Thank you. We are joined reconcile with nature. Thank you. We arejoined by the un secretary general. So lovely to have you with us. Why have you chosen this moment to issue such dramatic warning . Because we are approaching 2021 and this is the make it or break it year in relation to the planet and our relation with nature. 2021 is the year where we must have a Global Coalition for net zero emissions in 2050, Carbon Neutrality as you have shown, we have the uk, the european union, china, korea, japan, with the United States coming but, we still have a number of key mentors that are not yet committed to net zero and we need to have all of them. You need to work with in the 620 of them. You need to work with in the g20 countries to make sure that all great mentors commit to net zero and are part of this global annoyance for alliance for Carbon Neutrality everybody must commit to net zero and 2021 is the year to do so and to adopt the measures in that direction. It is the year in which we must reverse the trend of extinction that we are witnessing biodiversity in the year to seriously start a Global Programme on the oceans at the level that the conferences will allow to move in that direction. The costs in regards to biodiversity in the office. In areas in 2021 love the opportunity to address the dramatic challenges that our planet is facing. We need to have a holistic view to talk about Climate Change are biodiversity and everything is interlinked. We need to combine everything into a global strategy and reconciliation between human kind and it is the key year to do so thatis kind and it is the key year to do so that is why now, in early december, it is time to mobilise everybody for this objective that is essential for us this objective that is essential for us all. We have some climate activism will be answering the questions in ourfirst activism will be answering the questions in our first guest is from zambia. He was 1a, if you want to talk to his community about Climate Change and so i started a Radio Programme and how he changed other people as a means of climate activism. Trained. People as a means of climate activism. Trained. For me, it was quite personal. We have all experienced this and it has affected our productivity in our house and whatever experience of challenge where it connected my house and my schools washed away, i would spend over two weeks or three weeks at home without attending classes and for me, it was personal and i thought to myself, why not use this accessible medium to speak about something that concerns all of us. Which is saving the planet that we share in common. Together with Million People, we can change the world. We do not have enough time to sit and we have to forward our sleeves and be able to take action is going to ensure that the future is going to ensure that the future is secure and that young people can live in a world in which they can grow and flourish. From Columbia University shejoins grow and flourish. From Columbia University she joins us now. Grow and flourish. From Columbia University shejoins us now. Was it like hejoins us now. How did people react . It was a combination of realisation that people have gone through so environmental challenges and things of been washed away to the other challenges and by the sentiment Radio Programme they realise it is actually a bigger challenge that needed community, airports and interests. So, it brought about a lot of renewed hope within the community. What is your question for secretary general . like to find out, trunk of in zambia and there are so many challenges that young people face, recently, cyclone disrupted communities and leaving young people hopeless in developing countries in Southern Africa as the head of the United Nations, i would like to find out the commitment of the United Nations to make sure that young people in countries with less adaptive capacities, developing countries, are supported in growing communities where they can grow and thrive. The United Nations commitment to ensuring that there is Climate Justice for young people in developing countries . Well, first of all, which is absolutely true, zambia or small islands in the pacific, you are not big mentors, but you are suffering the worst impacts and storms, and floods, and droughts, and it is absolutely essential to mobilise the support of International Communities to these countries that are already impacted by Climate Change and the adaptation, the resilience in protecting these communities and populations against the impacts of Climate Change have seen very little support and so with the United Nations is doing is mobilising the international Financial Institutions to mobilise donors in order to know that we move to a much stronger support to the developing countries and a much stronger support of the investment in meditation and doing so not only through government, but through the societal movements and especially young people movements. Stay listening because the amazon is on the front line of Climate Change and were going to take it there now ata and were going to take it there now at a young ecuadorian woman has won at a young ecuadorian woman has won a Landmark Court case that prevented an oil company from travelling on her land. She has been an advocate for indigenous rights and this is her story. My name is eleanor. I come from an Indigenous Community in the ecuadorian amazon. With my Community Years ago feared most was the Extractive Industries would come to our territories because we have seen to our territories because we have seen that happening to other communities but we started to realise that there is another threat, which is Climate Change. A few months back, my community suffered from these enormous floods and floods of magnitudes that we had never seen and floods of magnitudes that we had never seen before. Indigenous people protect more than 80 of the worlds biodiversity. We are the ones that are fighting the most and were also living with the consequences of Climate Change. We can speak now to eleanor who is currently studying in finland. Lovely to see you. Does it feel for your people that you are very survival is at stake right now . Definitely because we are on the front lines of Climate Change but also in the fight against Climate Change by protecting our land. So, this is definitely about survival. In your question for the secretary general . It is a pleasure to share the space with you and it is evident that the work of Indigenous People has been vital for the protection of the amazon and buy that also to kerb Climate Change, but despite her efforts and the fights that the Indigenous People are leading, we constantly have powers working against us and my question is, what is the un going to do to support Indigenous People that already are fighting to reject extraction and to keep fossil fuels underground . First of all, id pay grievance to the role of the Indigenous Peoples. Rightly said, they protect 80 of the species and biodiversity. And we have seen that in the areas that are under the Indigenous People management. Nature and biodiversity are much better protected. But those areas of the averages that are under attack and if you look at the tropics, every day last year, every day, 30, the area equivalent to 30 soccer fields forest was destroyed. So that is an offensive against the forest and the livelihoods of the Indigenous People in your areas livelihoods of the Indigenous People in yourareas and livelihoods of the Indigenous People in your areas and is absolutely essential to give these people the power to intervene in their societies, for the verses to be heard and for them to have a role in the political systems and for the interests, the legitimate interests in the absolutely vital needs of Indigenous People to be a priority in the action of governments and the un is doing Everything Possible to have a gathering of Indigenous People every year and we have as much pressure as possible on governments to make sure that they are respected, that their rights are taken into are respected, that their rights are ta ken into account are respected, that their rights are taken into account and the enormous potential and the protection of nature is fully taken profit. We thought than any conversation about Climate Change is not complete without sir david attenborough. Buy a webcam, he pulled no punches in what he thinks of the planet. That is of the united stations and platforms that you provide are absolutely essential if we are to win. Never before has it been necessary for all the nations of the world, big, small, north, south, develop and never before has it been so develop and never before has it been so important that there be a crown, debating cloud where we can all come to an agreement. Because most will ee, to an agreement. Because most will agree, we are lost. There is a momentum growing, they have committed to net zero emissions by 2050 to Carbon Neutrality, japan and korea are doing it, china and the General Assembly of the United Nations promised to reach net zero emissions before 26, now we have an American Administration committed to net zero and all of this presents 65 of admissions and i think it is time, to have an honest dialogue with countries like india and russia and indonesia, with brazil and all the others and create a momentum for a Global Coalition to net zero. That has indeed started and particularly impressive among younger people, after all, it is their world. The teenagers today were really going to have to face the consequences of what we do now. Such passion there, he is 93, can you believe that real call to action. Lets go back now to the young activists were just hearing about. 19 year old from indias capital of delhi. Since being diagnosed with bronchitis, he is been fighting air pollution in the city. The air quality did improve during the lockdown, but not the restrictions of ease, it is backed up to dangerous levels. Here to tell is what it is like. When the air quality is really bad, we can actually smell the smoke in the air. And ever since i was a child, i started to notice that i used to have an allergic reaction due to bronchitis and i learned that my bronchitis and i learned that my bronchitis which was seasonal, was because of air pollution. Ever since then, ive been on the mission to have cleaner air for all of us and by encouraging people to plant trees, recycle whenever possible in protect the air quality at least three or four times every day. Protect the air quality at least three or four times every daym protect the air quality at least three or four times every day. It is time for you to ask your questions to the secretary general. Time for you to ask your questions to the secretarygeneral. It is an honour to be able to interact with you. 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