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Tommy Esang Remengesau Jr.

lines on the record: 108
first: 2013-09-24
most recent: 2020-09-24
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-general-debate

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“My country, along with other Pacific island nations, is unwilling even to discuss a 3°C-to- 5°C temperature-increase scenario by the end of the century, for that will ensure our demise. We are also unwilling to discuss the issue of migration. Instead, we will continue to work with our developed partners to implement strong mitigation commitments and follow- through action to hold the line on that increase to a more realistic 1.5°C level. My small Pacific country supports the concepts inherent in the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership, issued at the Pacific Island Forum this year. The Declaration acknowledges the gross insufficiency of current efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Discussion, not weapons, is the best way to resolve differences and uphold human rights. Let me interject here that as we witness so many areas of conflict on our planet, I think it is time for all of us, as leaders, to use this great institution and our own efforts to condemn violence against people, including the use of chemical weapons, for any reason, and to seek an end to armed conflict wherever we can. The events in Kenya are but one of a series of violent acts against people that we must work together to eliminate. Our global warming doomsday is already set in stone if we fail to act. It is therefore our job as leaders to take all necessary action to eliminate the current threat.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“First, all nations, large and small, must accept direct and primary responsibility for global issues that threaten our planetary future, and must immediately take appropriate action. Secondly, we must protect the natural resources of all people and all nations, and recognize that no nation has the right to pollute the resources of another. Thirdly, we must recognize the need for the richer nations of the world to actively address actions that threaten the poorer nations of the world. Fourthly, we must protect human resources through governing strategies that focus on broad-based education, health, jobs and equal opportunities, and that acknowledge cultures, traditions and homelands. Finally, we must agree, in all matters, to promote and protect the human rights and peaceful existence of all the people of the world.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Rather, we must take concrete actions to make real our stated reaffirmation of the principles of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development. Only then will our sustainable development goals discussed at this session of the Generally Assembly have a real chance to respond to our current worldwide environmental and developmental emergency. It is clear that what is needed today is leadership — leadership from the developed world and leadership from the developing world; leadership that focuses beyond borders and looks farther than today’s problems; ultimately, leadership that creates a broad consensus vision to preserve our planet for tomorrow’s children. Such leadership must be based upon concrete and clear principles that will help guide all of our actions.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Today, it appears that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has stalled, that the Kyoto Protocol is on life support, and that the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development has not done enough to strengthen our three pillars of sustainable development. Our job as leaders is to reinvigorate our efforts by establishing real mitigation commitments and identifying immediate, sufficient and long-term implementation financing. Together, we reaffirmed the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities at Rio and moved forward with the green economy approach to sustainable development issues. We must not allow our green economy to become business as usual.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“In addressing the next round of sustainable development goals and in responding to the ever-growing challenges of global warming, it is imperative that we all do a better job of working together to solve the serious issues that we face. World leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio established a positive and rational vision of partnership and sustainable development for the world. Unfortunately, that vision seems to have been sidetracked. There is therefore frustration in many countries today related to our failure to move that vision forward, the slow pace in progress in meeting our joint goals, and the fear that those goals are being diluted.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“When I was a child, my back yard did not flood and we did not have tropical storm after tropical storm pass through our Pacific islands. It is therefore as clear to me as it is to other Pacific leaders that the full moon and the ocean are no longer metaphors for balance and harmony. Today they represent imbalance from our past excesses and a lack of harmony due to our current inability, as the Secretary-General has so often said, to create the world we want. The leaders and the people of the world certainly face many challenges moving forward in creating the world we want and in developing a sustainable future.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“At the outset, let me extend my congratulations and appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for his leadership and work with the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session and to the Secretary-General for his continuing leadership. The Palauan flag depicts a yellow full moon against a blue ocean. That combination of moon and ocean is a metaphor for nature’s balance and harmony through the consistency of the rising and falling tides. Just before I left to come to the General Assembly, during a full moon high tide, my back yard, which nestles against the ocean, flooded. Typhoon Usagi passed through the Pacific just a few days later and landed in Asia, killing many people. It was followed almost immediately by Tropical Storm Pabuk.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)