Sydney (Australia), 8 sep (EFE).-the Secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to redouble efforts to combat climate change in order to save millions of lives threatened by desertification or flooding is causing.
“Gas emissions continue to increase.” Ban “today millions of people are suffering from the impacts of climate change” said in a speech at the Australian University of Sydney.
Ban lies in Australia after participating in the Summit of Heads of State or Government of countries of Oceania that place in the New Zealand city of Auckland, and in which small island developing States presented its serious concern at the gradual increase of the level of the sea caused by climate change.
“Migrants for reasons related to the environment are restructuring the demographics of the planet.” “This (climate change) increases levels of the sea and the advance of the desert,” said Ban.
The maximum representative of the United Nations visited this week the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, two of the island States of the South Pacific which was submerged due to climate change.
In his speech at the Summit of leaders of the South Pacific, the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, warned on Wednesday that the sinking of the Islands that make up their State is so close that it contemplates building a platform floating to accommodate the population.
Tong explained that the model of floating platform which has been thinking “will be of science fiction” and similar to those employed by the oil companies for extraction sites located under the seabed, at a cost estimated at some two billion dollars.
Ban rejected criticism from some participants in the sense of progress in the fight against climate change has been until now irrelevant and pointed out that at the Summit in the Mexican city of Cancun countries pledged to avoid a global warming greater than 2 degrees relative to the pre-industrial era. EFE
