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STORY: UN / GUTERRES PAKISTAN
TRT: 01:20
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
06 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Tomorrow I will be flying to Pakistan to express my deep solidarity with the Pakistani people and to appeal for the massive support of the international community to the Pakistanis, in this hour of need after the devastating floods that we are witnessing. There is a lot of attention on the war in Ukraine. But people tend to forget there is another war – the war we are waging on nature, and nature is striking back, and climate change is supercharging the destruction of our planet. Pakistan, Chad, and the Horn of Africa, where the drought is causing famine. All these things represent an enormous threat to all of us. Today it is Pakistan. Tomorrow it can be anywhere else.
To deal with climate change, that is the defining issue of our time, with a business-as-usual approach is pure suicide.
Thank you very much.”
Announcing his upcoming trip to Pakistan, “in this hour of need after the devastating floods that we are witnessing,” Secretary-General António Guterres today (6 Sep) said, “to deal with climate change, that is the defining issue of our time, with a business-as-usual approach is pure suicide.”
The Secretary-General said, “there is a lot of attention on the war in Ukraine. But people tend to forget there is another war – the war we are waging on nature, and nature is striking back, and climate change is supercharging the destruction of our planet.”
He said, “Pakistan, Chad, and the Horn of Africa, where the drought is causing famine. All these things represent an enormous threat to all of us.”
Guterres will be in Pakistan on 9 and 10 September where he will meet with officials and visit flood affected areas.
