New York: Europe and the Arabs

Following the UN Climate Summit held as part of the High-Level Week at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said that the work done so far in this area is "not enough" and called for "greater ambition" to contain global warming.
In his message following the release of the President's Summary of the Summit, Mr. Guterres noted that more than half of the world's countries met last week to advance climate action. He added that 125 parties to the Paris Agreement—responsible for nearly 80% of global emissions—have now submitted or announced new climate plans for 2035.
However, he said: "This is not enough. The science is clear: we need far greater ambition to keep the 1.5°C limit within reach. COP 30 must be a turning point—the beginning of a crucial decade of acceleration." According to the UN Daily News Bulletin, a copy of which we received on Saturday morning, it added, "
The UN Climate Summit 2025 was convened by Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose country will host the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP 30) next month.
The summit aimed to galvanize political momentum to address the climate crisis ahead of the conference in Belém, Brazil, and to outline the actions countries will take over the next decade to keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach.
Participating countries put forward new targets for increasing the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency, reducing fossil fuel consumption and methane emissions from the energy sector, and protecting forests, as well as measures to enhance adaptation and resilience.
However, participating leaders also acknowledged that the energy transition is not fast enough to keep the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century and that it remains heavily concentrated in a few countries.
There was a strong focus among them on the need to achieve a just transition and a significant increase in The flow of finance to developing countries will enable them to achieve their highest ambitions and adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis.
Leaders also recognized that new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) will not be sufficient to put the world on track to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
In this regard, they expressed strong support for addressing the gaps in the ambition and implementation of NDCs at COP30, as well as the gaps in adaptation and finance to enable developing countries to achieve or exceed their goals.