Azerbaijan will be presenting its nationally determined contributions and its own action plan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with Report.
According to Guterres, the important thing is the ambition that Azerbaijan with its initiatives is able to drive: “All member states that come for the COP, come for the COP to be a success, and the COP must be a success. Because climate change is wrecking around the world. This year is very probably the hottest year we have, the hottest months, the hottest day. We are having droughts, we are having hurricanes, we are having floods that are devastating large parts of the world and emissions that should be reduced by 9% per year in order to keep in line with our objective of maintaining temperatures below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.”
“And this will be a very important signal to other countries to have their nationally determined contributions that is fully aligned with 1.5 degrees, that has covered the whole economy. And that can be an example to tell other countries that you need to do the same,” the UN secretary-general said.
Read the full interview here.