Praises the scientists but he has a warning too. As with celebrate this achievement, we are not carried away with over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over. It is not. Jabs at racecourses that could be used in the biggest logistical operation the country has seen. This will take a while before having changes, but we are hopeful that this is the beginning of the end of this very difficult year that we have had. 55 Million People go to the strictest tears in england as new restrictions replace the Second National lockdown. And head of a crucial yearfor the globalfight against and head of a crucial yearfor the global fight against Climate Change, my colleague isjoined by global fight against Climate Change, my colleague is joined by activists from around the world and other special guests for a Discussion Programme about the challenges ahead and how to resolve them. We are about to be given a warning like we have never heard before. Our planet is broken and humanity is waging waron planet is broken and humanity is waging war on nature, nature is striking back with growing force in fury. That morning from the un secretary. The evidence of Climate Change is all around us we are living in a world where apocalyptic fires and floods choking air pollution and droughts are the new normal. The secretary general says now is the time for urgent action if we are to bring the planet back from the point of no return. His words, comes this year, it is one of the warmest on record. So, lets hear now from the secretary general of the planet. Dear friends of the planet, i think the bbc for inviting us. Planet, i think the bbc for inviting us. Let us face facts, the state of our planet is broken. Humanity is waging waron our planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature and this is suicidal. Nature always strikes back is doing so with Gathering Force in fury. Biodiversity is collapsing, hazards of spreading, oceans are choking with plastic weights and the city left more lotion than fish. The coral reefs that support life for 500 Million People are dying. And Water Pollution is killing 9 Million People every year. The last decade was the hottest on record, the arctic ice was the lowest ever and apocalyptic fires and floods cyclones and hurricanes are the new normal. Covid 19 lockdowns may have temporarily reduced emissions, but Carbon Dioxide levels are at record levels and rising. Every attempts of a degree of warming makes a world of difference. Today, where 1. 2 degrees hotter with difference. Today, where1. 2 degrees hotter with unprecedented climate extremes in volatility. Without concerted action, we may be headed towards a catastrophic temperature rise the century. The science is clear. Unless the cuts for production of 6 every year between now and 2030, things will get worse, much worse it instead, we are on track to go up by 2 each year. We are going in the wrong direction. So, dearfriends, are going in the wrong direction. So, dear friends, making are going in the wrong direction. So, dearfriends, making peace with nature must be priority one for the zist nature must be priority one for the 21st century. The recovery from the pandemic offers a chance. We see hopein pandemic offers a chance. We see hope in the covid 19 vaccine but there is no vaccine for the planet. 0n the determined action by us can prevent this disaster. Nature needs a bailout, we need to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2015 in the uk and european unions, if committed to do so,japan, the european unions, if committed to do so, japan, the republic of korea and ten countries have done the same. And the United States administration. China has pledged to get there before 2060. We have to turn this momentum into a movement in the central objective for 2021 is to build a truly Global Coalition for Carbon Neutrality. Every country, city, Financial Institution and company should adopt plants or transitions and take Decisive Action now to put themselves in the right path which means cutting global emissions by 45 by 2030 compared to 2010 levels. It is time to put a price on carbon, to phase out fossil fuel finance and subsidies, to stop building new coal power plants and shift it from taxpayers to polluters. Make tight daddy make disclosures mandatory and the goal of urban neutrality into all fiscal policies and decisions. We face an emergency but i have hope at least these advances show we can do. Mindsets are shifting, led by young people and this is the moment of truth. If we return to our old ways of inequality and keep this dominion over the hurts, we face disaster. Instead, we can forge a safer, more sustainable and equitable path. We have the agenda for Sustainable Development in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Now, we must declare a permanent cease fire and reconcile with nature. Thank you. We are joined reconcile with nature. Thank you. We arejoined by the un secretary general. So lovely to have you with us. Why have you chosen this moment to issue such dramatic warning . Because we are approaching 2021 and this is the make it or break it year in relation to the planet and our relation with nature. 2021 is the year where we must have a Global Coalition for net zero emissions in 2050, Carbon Neutrality as you have shown, we have the uk, the european union, china, korea, japan, with the United States coming but, we still have a number of key mentors that are not yet committed to net zero and we need to have all of them. You need to work with in the 620 of them. You need to work with in the g20 countries to make sure that all great mentors commit to net zero and are part of this global annoyance for alliance for Carbon Neutrality everybody must commit to net zero and 2021 is the year to do so and to adopt the measures in that direction. It is the year in which we must reverse the trend of extinction that we are witnessing biodiversity in the year to seriously start a Global Programme on the oceans at the level that the conferences will allow to move in that direction. The costs in regards to biodiversity in the office. In areas in 2021 love the opportunity to address the dramatic challenges that our planet is facing. We need to have a holistic view to talk about Climate Change are biodiversity and everything is interlinked. We need to combine everything into a global strategy and reconciliation between human kind and it is the key year to do so thatis kind and it is the key year to do so that is why now, in early december, it is time to mobilise everybody for this objective that is essential for us this objective that is essential for us all. We have some climate activism will be answering the questions in ourfirst activism will be answering the questions in our first guest is from zambia. He was 1a, if you want to talk to his community about Climate Change and so i started a Radio Programme and how he changed other people as a means of climate activism. Trained. People as a means of climate activism. Trained. For me, it was quite personal. We have all experienced this and it has affected our productivity in our house and whatever experience of challenge where it connected my house and my schools washed away, i would spend over two weeks or three weeks at home without attending classes and for me, it was personal and i thought to myself, why not use this accessible medium to speak about something that concerns all of us. Which is saving the planet that we share in common. Together with Million People, we can change the world. We do not have enough time to sit and we have to forward our sleeves and be able to take action is going to ensure that the future is going to ensure that the future is secure and that young people can live in a world in which they can grow and flourish. From Columbia University shejoins grow and flourish. From Columbia University she joins us now. Grow and flourish. From Columbia University shejoins us now. Was it like hejoins us now. How did people react . It was a combination of realisation that people have gone through so environmental challenges and things of been washed away to the other challenges and by the sentiment Radio Programme they realise it is actually a bigger challenge that needed community, airports and interests. So, it brought about a lot of renewed hope within the community. What is your question for secretary general . like to find out, trunk of in zambia and there are so many challenges that young people face, recently, cyclone disrupted communities and leaving young people hopeless in developing countries in Southern Africa as the head of the United Nations, i would like to find out the commitment of the United Nations to make sure that young people in countries with less adaptive capacities, developing countries, are supported in growing communities where they can grow and thrive. The United Nations commitment to ensuring that there is Climate Justice for young people in developing countries . Well, first of all, which is absolutely true, zambia or small islands in the pacific, you are not big mentors, but you are suffering the worst impacts and storms, and floods, and droughts, and it is absolutely essential to mobilise the support of International Communities to these countries that are already impacted by Climate Change and the adaptation, the resilience in protecting these communities and populations against the impacts of Climate Change have seen very little support and so with the United Nations is doing is mobilising the international Financial Institutions to mobilise donors in order to know that we move to a much stronger support to the developing countries and a much stronger support of the investment in meditation and doing so not only through government, but through the societal movements and especially young people movements. Stay listening because the amazon is on the front line of Climate Change and were going to take it there now ata and were going to take it there now at a young ecuadorian woman has won at a young ecuadorian woman has won a Landmark Court case that prevented an oil company from travelling on her land. She has been an advocate for indigenous rights and this is her story. My name is eleanor. I come from an Indigenous Community in the ecuadorian amazon. With my Community Years ago feared most was the Extractive Industries would come to our territories because we have seen to our territories because we have seen that happening to other communities but we started to realise that there is another threat, which is Climate Change. A few months back, my community suffered from these enormous floods and floods of magnitudes that we had never seen and floods of magnitudes that we had never seen before. Indigenous people protect more than 80 of the worlds biodiversity. We are the ones that are fighting the most and were also living with the consequences of Climate Change. We can speak now to eleanor who is currently studying in finland. Lovely to see you. Does it feel for your people that you are very survival is at stake right now . Definitely because we are on the front lines of Climate Change but also in the fight against Climate Change by protecting our land. So, this is definitely about survival. In your question for the secretary general . It is a pleasure to share the space with you and it is evident that the work of Indigenous People has been vital for the protection of the amazon and buy that also to kerb Climate Change, but despite her efforts and the fights that the Indigenous People are leading, we constantly have powers working against us and my question is, what is the un going to do to support Indigenous People that already are fighting to reject extraction and to keep fossil fuels underground . First of all, id pay grievance to the role of the Indigenous Peoples. Rightly said, they protect 80 of the species and biodiversity. And we have seen that in the areas that are under the Indigenous People management. Nature and biodiversity are much better protected. But those areas of the averages that are under attack and if you look at the tropics, every day last year, every day, 30, the area equivalent to 30 soccer fields forest was destroyed. So that is an offensive against the forest and the livelihoods of the Indigenous People in your areas livelihoods of the Indigenous People in yourareas and livelihoods of the Indigenous People in your areas and is absolutely essential to give these people the power to intervene in their societies, for the verses to be heard and for them to have a role in the political systems and for the interests, the legitimate interests in the absolutely vital needs of Indigenous People to be a priority in the action of governments and the un is doing Everything Possible to have a gathering of Indigenous People every year and we have as much pressure as possible on governments to make sure that they are respected, that their rights are taken into are respected, that their rights are ta ken into account are respected, that their rights are taken into account and the enormous potential and the protection of nature is fully taken profit. We thought than any conversation about Climate Change is not complete without sir david attenborough. Buy a webcam, he pulled no punches in what he thinks of the planet. That is of the united stations and platforms that you provide are absolutely essential if we are to win. Never before has it been necessary for all the nations of the world, big, small, north, south, develop and never before has it been so develop and never before has it been so important that there be a crown, debating cloud where we can all come to an agreement. Because most will ee, to an agreement. Because most will agree, we are lost. There is a momentum growing, they have committed to net zero emissions by 2050 to Carbon Neutrality, japan and korea are doing it, china and the General Assembly of the United Nations promised to reach net zero emissions before 26, now we have an American Administration committed to net zero and all of this presents 65 of admissions and i think it is time, to have an honest dialogue with countries like india and russia and indonesia, with brazil and all the others and create a momentum for a Global Coalition to net zero. That has indeed started and particularly impressive among younger people, after all, it is their world. The teenagers today were really going to have to face the consequences of what we do now. Such passion there, he is 93, can you believe that real call to action. Lets go back now to the young activists were just hearing about. 19 year old from indias capital of delhi. Since being diagnosed with bronchitis, he is been fighting air pollution in the city. The air quality did improve during the lockdown, but not the restrictions of ease, it is backed up to dangerous levels. Here to tell is what it is like. When the air quality is really bad, we can actually smell the smoke in the air. And ever since i was a child, i started to notice that i used to have an allergic reaction due to bronchitis and i learned that my bronchitis and i learned that my bronchitis which was seasonal, was because of air pollution. Ever since then, ive been on the mission to have cleaner air for all of us and by encouraging people to plant trees, recycle whenever possible in protect the air quality at least three or four times every day. Protect the air quality at least three or four times every daym protect the air quality at least three or four times every day. It is time for you to ask your questions to the secretary general. Time for you to ask your questions to the secretarygeneral. It is an honour to be able to interact with you. The Economic Cycle is very similar for most countries and developed for the planet or at least playing a major role in contributing to the Climate Crisis and now we seem to the Climate Crisis and now we seem to be hoarding developing countries equally responsible and while with Renewable Energy being necessarily a trade off, for sustainability and economic process, in what ways keeping developed countries can help developing countries can help developing countries like india for the programme . I would like to say that india is an inspiration. The oldest books that bridge the harmony and a symbol that i was remember when talking about the sustainability and peace and harmony between us in nature. Theyre taking a number of important measures and it is very releva nt important measures and it is very relevant but, it is clear that pollution, it is largely linked to the mission of the gases that lead to Climate Change, call, power plants, missions need to be reduced in countries like india need to make a huge effort to reduce their emissions and to improve the quality ofair in emissions and to improve the quality of air in that need solidarity from the developed countries, developed countries have committed in paris, to grant through the private and Public Sector 100 billion every year since 2020 support developing countries, to reduce their emissions and to adapt to the dramatic impacts of Climate Change and this is not yet been done. So, what youre doing is making a lot of pressure in developed countries to respect their commitments and at the same time, we had a meeting of multilateral banks, regional banks and National Development banks and we made strong pressure for them to play a leading role in creating the conditions for himself partnerships with guarantees, joint investments, because it is not enough to have Climate Action in the developed world. We must do it in the whole of the developing world both for mitigation, india today is very important country in emissions because the Huge Population in the economy represents, but not only that, we have to have a much stronger support adaptation to the measures to build resilience of the communities and for the communities to better respond to the impacts of Climate Change and that requires a much stronger solidarity. And as he said in the Columbia University, solidarity is survival. Without solidarity, the world will not move. Lovely to hear from you. Youre going to take you now right down to the South Pacific to the threat of the South Pacific to the threat of the islands that could be swallowed by rising sea levels. In fiji, three villages have been forced to relocate and 18 were waiting to be moved. He is the perspective of one activists on the impact of Climate Change and oceania. Activists on the impact of Climate Change and oceanialj activists on the impact of Climate Change and oceania. I am from the fiji islands. The Pacific Islands contribution to Greenhouse Gases emissions in the atmosphere is negligible but they suffer disproportionately the effects of global warming. In my left him alone, ive seen sees rise much faster than the global average in the warming oceans, more intense weather events, for a lot of villages that are to relocate because of sea level rises, it is very traumatic but there is very cultural loss, the sins of identity is at stake here we keep pushing to tell the story that we are driven, young people that are doing what we can to protect our island homes from Climate Change. I and many of the Pacific Islanders have been fighting against Climate Change for years. Unfortunately, we do not believe that enough progress has been made internationally. Your opinion, what will it take for high carbon emitting countries to take action and defund the fuel industry. The question is what will it take to defund the fossil fuel industry was green first of all, we need to stop fossil fuel green first of all, we need to stop fossilfuel subsidies green first of all, we need to stop fossil fuel subsidies and asking for that a long time ago and governments are still spending taxpayers money, our money to subsidise fossil fuels that contribute to destroying the planet. It doesnt make any sense that our money is being used to destroy our own planet. And so the first measure is, stop fossil fuel subsidies. The second measure that is essential is stop the construction of coal based power pla nts construction of coal based power plants and stop the financing of coalin plants and stop the financing of coal in the world. And i see there is progress there but we have many countries that are exporting coal pla nts countries that are exporting coal plants and financing in finally, it is important to redirect finance into Renewable Energies and here i wa nt to into Renewable Energies and here i want to pay tribute to the small island specific, and Climate Change, they are the first line of suffering and especially the city to follow the islands. This country can disappear if we do not stop Climate Change and we do, if you watch the water level go up, it is intolerable to see these countries disappear. We must change course. We must dominate the present trends, we must reverse the present trends, we must reverse the present trends that are still making the waters of the ocean rise four mm every year in excess of the rating, which of course is an existential threat to small island specific states that is unacceptable for the International Communities. Stop by thank you so much for your passion and your commitment and answering some of those tough questions and being with us today. And a huge thank you for our contributors from all of the world, it was really great to have them with us for such a fantastic conversation, but i have a final few questions theyve got for you and one of them is that i am doing my part. Im recycling, eating less and doing the stuff im told i should do, but it doesnt feel like that is enough. The address that in his speech. 0ne enough. The address that in his speech. One thing that we should all do is create this political space for our governments to take action on cutting carbon. We can all do bids to reduce our Carbon Emissions but the truth is, the system is what creates most of the submissions the less the system changes, we really can make the kind of cuts we need as a World Community to meet the challenge of Climate Change. But is the most important thing that we heard in this conversation we just had. The mac to pull out from everything is a very fascinating and interesting speech was that he wants to put Climate Change right at the heart of the un mission. At that it was incredibly powerful presentation of the crisis the world faces and it was real rising court action will need to see nexus foundations will respond to that. It was interesting because its in the countries that have not made these pledges, india, russia, indonesia, australia, he was naming them there. Very unusual for you and cheap to do that we have a big conference in the uk and glasgow in november next year, that is on the countries of the world need to come together and say what they need to do to tackle this problem. As he says, the future of the world is in the balance. As is the plant is broken but are you more optimistic . We are at the moment where the world is starting to realise when x essential threat this is, so a very interesting time. Thank you to our viewers for this pvc special programme. Goodbye. Bbc. Hello there. Today, it has been turning colder from the northwest with quite a few blustery showers blowing in as well. And overnight, those showers in Northern Ireland and especially scotland are going to be turning more and more wintry. It will lead to some icy conditions here as well. And we are more likely to have a frosted scotland and Northern Ireland. Probably not so cold for england and wales, but cloud will be increasing again and wetter weather pushing into wells in the southwest, it will be a wet day here on thursday and that cloud and rain will head three commitments towards east anglia in the southeast. 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