UN Secretary General António Guterres has asked member countries to create a common Global Carbon Neutrality Coalition by 2050. The head of the organization called on governments around the world to declare a climate emergency. He stated this during an online summit dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Paris agreements.

In accordance with the proposal of Guterres, by 2030 countries should reduce the production of greenhouse gases by 45% compared with the level of pollution in 2010. This will prevent the temperature from rising globally by more than 1.5 degrees.

"Can anyone still deny that we are facing a major emergency? So today I call on all leaders to declare a climate emergency in their countries before the carbon neutrality goal is achieved” - he said.

According to the head of the UN, since the 19th century, the average temperature on Earth has risen by 1.2%. If nothing is changed, warming will soon reach 3%, and this may already end in disaster for humanity.

In this regard, Guterres proposed the following measures:

• set a price for carbon;
• stop financing and subsidizing fossil fuel production;
• abandon the construction of coal-fired power plants;
• tax not income, but carbon emissions and shift the tax burden from taxpayers to polluters;
• make the declaration of financial risks related to climate mandatory;
• integrate the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in all economic and fiscal decisions and strategies.