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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-09-24
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[01] PAPADOPOULOS - UN MEETING - CLIMATE CHANGE
[01] PAPADOPOULOS - UN MEETING - CLIMATE CHANGE
President of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, has stressed
the need for the creation of an effective mechanism that would tackle
global climate change. Addressing the High Level meeting on climate
change, that takes place at the United Nations Headquarters, President
Papadopoulos said that the international community needs no further,
scientific or other proof that climate change is one of the most
serious interlocking crises facing humanity today.
The fact that we gather here today we owe largely to the increasing
awareness and concern of our citizens about the impact of climate
change as well as to their demand that we display the necessary
political will to tackle this threat to life as we know it, he added.
President Papadopoulos said that concrete measures have to be taken to
effectively manage climate change risks while simultaneously working
collectively and formulating longer-term policies and elaborating a
comprehensive framework that will reverse, to the extent possible, the
existing and future effects of climate change.
He also noted that the United Nations is the appropriate framework in
terms of legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency in the design and
execution of the way forward to ensure that the quality of life we
enjoy now is passed on to future generations. Referring to the
ecosystem in the Mediterranean, the Cypriot President said that it is
one of those that have been under stress for some time. In particular,
he referred to the marine environment which has sustained considerable
damage, to the droughts and heat waves, to severe water scarcity which
will be intensified and to the erosion of coastal zones.
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