UN: Guterres says "world must wake up" to "greatest cascade of crises in our lifetimes"

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the ‘world must wake up’ in the face of crises such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic in his address to the UN general assembly New York City on Wednesday.

“Our world has never been more threatened or more divided. We face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetimes,” said Guterres, warning that “Human rights are under fire and science is under assault.”

The secretary general called out the inequality regarding international vaccination process in which ‘the majority of the wealthier world’ has received their vaccine while a large proportion of the world if still waiting on their first dose.

According to Guterres, the speed of development of the vaccines is out of balance with its global distribution. “We passed the science test, but we get an F in ethics,” he said.

Regarding the next UN Climate Conference Summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November this year, the UN chief urged the global community to ‘get serious’ and ‘act fast.’ He emphasised the importance of dealing with the climate crisis and said that the world is ‘light years’ away from reaching the goals it has set.
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