{"id":400807,"date":"2020-09-17T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400807"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:29:04","slug":"un-chief-calls-for-more-efforts-to-address-global-fragilities-exposed-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/un-chief-calls-for-more-efforts-to-address-global-fragilities-exposed-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls for more efforts to address global fragilities exposed by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for more efforts to address the global fragilities that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must do far more to address the global fragilities that the virus has exposed,&#8221; the UN chief told journalists at a hybrid press conference held at the UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even before the pandemic, the world was veering far off course in efforts to eradicate poverty, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and we were losing the battle against climate change,&#8221; he said, noting that greenhouse gas concentrations reached new record highs in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Northern Hemisphere has just experienced its hottest summer on record,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is burning, and recovery is our chance to get on track and tame the flames,&#8221; the secretary-general stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about recovery, the UN chief said that it must be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recovery must be green. Subsidizing fossil fuels and bailing out polluting industries means locking in bad patterns for decades to come,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary-general also underscored that recovery must advance gender equality and requires effective multilateralism as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS (SONNA):United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for more efforts to address the global fragilities that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed. &#8220;We must do far more to address the global fragilities that the virus has exposed,&#8221; the UN chief told journalists at a hybrid press conference held at the UN headquarters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400810,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400807\/revisions\/400810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}