Secretary-General Visits Antarctica

Secretary-General António Guterres (right) and Paula Narváez Ojeda, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, pose for a photo at the Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva in Antarctica.

The Secretary-General is visiting Antarctica to see the deadly impact of the climate crisis. While in Antarctica the Secretary-General saw the Collins and Nelson Glaciers, as well as the Kopaitic Island, which is home to penguins and other species which are being impacted by climate change.

We must leave here with a strengthened will and with a reinforced energy for COP28, and we must call on political leaders at a global level to assume their responsibilities in terms of climate change in order to save Antarctica and the planet. We must tell them that it is absolutely essential that this COP decides on more ambition in mitigation and more ambition in climate justice. And it is essential that renewable energy solutions must be tripled by 2030 and energy efficiency doubled, said the Secretary-General.