More than 130 un member states have voted for the
International Court of Justice to pronounce on the obligations incumbent
on states to protect the climate for present and future
generations. It means the world's highest court will now
clarify what countries must do legally to defend the environment
from climate harm. But the resolution is non binding
, meaning that there's no need for any state to
abide by it if it doesn't want to. Ladies
and gentlemen, for some countries, climate threats are
a death sentence. Indeed, it is the initiative
of those countries joined by so many others. Along
with the efforts of young people all over the world
that brings us together and together you are making history
last week un. Climate experts warned that global warming
will increase by 1.5 degrees by 2030 to 2035 The 2015 Paris agreement
, which is legally binding, set the long term
goal to keep warming to 2Â° at the most by
the end of this century.