Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, January 21 (Reporter Shang Xuqian) When UN Secretary-General Guterres briefed the UN General Assembly on the priorities of his work in 2022 on the 21st, he raised five warning signals on the world situation, namely the new crown epidemic and the defects of the global financial governance system. , the climate crisis, the misuse of new technologies, armed conflict.
He noted that the world is facing “the highest level of fire”. The global COVID-19 pandemic faces uncertainty; rising inequality; rising inflation; worsening climate crisis, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss; frequent political unrest and military conflicts; Hate and lies jam.
Guterres believes that the five warning signs are related to the failure of global governance. He emphasized the harm caused by the uneven distribution of the new crown vaccine, the importance of reforming the existing global financial governance system, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, the need to establish a people-oriented global governance system for the application of new technologies, and the elimination of armed conflicts, construction of the importance of peace.
How to respond to the five warning signs will determine the direction of human development in the coming decades, Guterres said. The world must go into “emergency mode” and all countries must act fully to “fight the fire”.Return to Sohu, see more
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