Source: United Nations (video statements)
Arriving in Port Moresby this Tuesday, António Guterres said he was honoured to be the first UN Secretary-General to visit Papua New Guinea and to join in celebrating fifty years of the country’s independence. For the past five decades, he said, Papua New Guineans have taken on a profound task: to weave their breathtaking diversity into one people and one country that leaves no one behind. Papua New Guinea has long led the charge for climate justice, he said. And as we approach the UN Climate Conference in Brazil later this fall, he added, the world must move faster to keep the 1.5 degrees limit alive and also to produce a credible path to achieve the $1.3 trillion dollar objective decided in Baku during the last Climate Conference.