Dikhyaa Mohanty 
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a global partnership to tackle climate change and strive toward inclusive green growth. He made this appeal in a video message at the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 Summit hosted by South Korea.
According to the news report, Antonio Guterres stated in the summit that the title of this initiative expresses exactly what the world needs now global partnership: partnership to beat COVID-19 and build a better recovery, partnership to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and partnership to address climate change.
He further stated that tackling climate change head-on will help protect the most vulnerable people from the next crisis while sustaining a job-rich recovery from COVID-19. The first priority is no new coal plants and a phase-out of coal use by 2030 in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and 2040 in the rest of the world.
He added- “We urgently need a breakthrough on adaptation and resilience. I am asking all donor countries to significantly enhance their financial commitments. That includes allocating 50 per cent of climate finance to adaptation and providing a higher level of grants.
The Group of Seven Summit in June needs to deliver on all these objectives. It is not a global partnership if some are left struggling to survive. This is true for COVID-19 and the distribution of vaccines and it is true for the climate emergency.
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