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Getschel

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first: 2019-01-25
most recent: 2019-01-25
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Those commitments are important, but they are not nearly good enough if we are to prevent warming above 1.5Â°C. Young people must be central to finding and sustaining these solutions. Almost 2 billion young people around the world do not have the luxury of choosing not to care about this issue. And with the help of the United Nations and its member countries, we will find solutions. Otherwise it is us, our communities and our future that will face the consequences.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“According to an environmental study conducted by the United Nations Department of Field Support, as of April 2017, renewable energy accounted for less than 1 per cent of electricity generation in deployed missions, meaning that missions rely almost entirely on fossil fuels, particularly diesel. The Security Council should adopt a resolution to commit to 50 per cent of energy from renewables by 2025 and use regular reports from the Secretary-General to track progress. There is no question that climate change is a security threat both in its direct impacts and as a threat multiplier. The United Nations and the Security Council must live up to their words and act now to mitigate and adapt to climate change. While I am heartened by multilateral frameworks like the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, there is much more to be done.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“More of these innovate solutions are needed to address climate change around the world. The United Nations and its newly launched Youth 2030 Strategy can act as a platform where young people can share their ideas and find support for their initiatives. Finally, the United Nations must live up to this organ's long-stated goal to reduce reliance on fossil fuels in field missions. By reducing the energy footprint of its deployed missions, the United Nations can reduce its greenhouse gas pollution while also building sustainable infrastructure in the communities that it serves. By using sustainable energy, the United Nations can prevent its reliance on the fossil fuels market and build a more self-sufficient community.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Such assessments would function as an early-warning mechanism to alert the Council to areas where climate change will hamper the ability of United Nations missions to carry out their conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. Deployed missions must also engage young people in finding solutions to build climate resilience in their communities. As just one example, in Saint Lucia, a local young person, Mr. Johanan Dujon saw how climate-induced blooms of harmful seaweed damaged the local fishing industry and he created a fertilizer using the seaweed that had washed ashore. This improved the resilience of local fishers to climate change and improved local gardening and agriculture. In the three years since Mr. Dujon started his business, he has removed almost 300 tons of seaweed from the shores of Saint Lucia.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“The next step the Security Council must take will be to recognize both the disproportionate impact climate change has on young people and young people's unique role as innovators, bringing new ideas to the table to solve this global problem. The Security Council should require the special representatives of the Secretary- General at each deployed mission to assess the impact of climate change on local youth, particularly in terms of displacement, unemployment, food security, and recruitment into armed groups, because these are insecurities that we know drive continued conflict. The special representatives should brief the Security Council on their findings.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Simply put, climate change makes people less safe, forcing them to leave their homes and abandon their livelihoods as they lose access to their income, food and ways of life. This clearly impacts political and social stability. Importantly, young people are particularly vulnerable, be it through human trafficking, unemployment, poverty or simply not knowing where their next meal is coining from. While the United Nations has incorporated climate change into the mandates of missions, such as in Somalia, Darfur, Mali, the Central African Republic and the Lake Chad region, a Security Council resolution that recognizes the security impacts of climate change must also require climate sensitivity to be part of the mandates of all peacekeeping missions and special political missions.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“As we have seen in just the past few Atlantic hurricane seasons, which have ravaged the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, local Governments simply cannot handle the increasingly severe weather that is becoming more common. When local Governments cannot provide basic services to their people, the result is displacement, poverty, political instability and violence. Climate change is also harming the food and economic security of millions of people. There is an increasing consensus that more extreme and longer droughts in Africa and the Middle East are connected to conflict there. As oceans warm and marine ecosystems shift, coastal communities, particularly in island nations, will lose the sources of food and livelihood they have relied on for generations.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“At the Stimson Center, an international security policy research institute in Washington, DC, where I work, we are doing innovative research on how social and economic vulnerabilities, poor governance, migration and a decline in fisheries will impact the stability of coastal cities. By overlaying these factors, we are identifying the most at-risk places for instability as a result of climate change in order to better target policies, investment and aid. It is clear to everyone in this room that climate change is a security threat. Today, we know that 18 million people were displaced in 2017 alone as a result of storms, drought, flooding and heat waves.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Secondly, deployed United Nations missions should assess how climate change will impact local youth and how youth can be involved in building resilience and sustainability. And, thirdly, deployed United Nations missions need to transition to using clean energy in the field, which will help mitigate climate change as well as build more sustainable communities. The adoption by the Security Council of a draft resolution formally recognizing the threat that climate change poses to security is long overdue. While I applaud the Council for discussing climate change's security impacts, it has been 10 years since its first debate on this issue, and no resolution has been adopted that affirms that climate change constitutes a threat to international peace and security. There is no question that climate change is a security issue.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Ms. Getschel: It is an honour to address the Security Council, and I thank the Dominican Republic for having convened this debate. I am here as a young person to demand action because it is my generation and those that come after me who will bear the consequences of climate change. We are dedicated to finding solutions to this issue so that we can live in a world that is more secure, more peaceful and more prosperous. I will lay out three concrete steps that the Security Council can take to reduce the security impacts of climate change. First, the Security Council should adopt a draft resolution that formally recognizes climate change as a threat to international peace and security.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source