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图片来源：Kiara Worth |联合国气候变化
以下是联合国气候变化执行秘书西蒙·斯蒂尔于 2024 年 11 月 11 日在阿塞拜疆巴库举行的联合国气候变化大会 （COP29） 开幕式上的讲话记录。
各位阁下、各位代表、同事们、朋友们，
很荣幸欢迎你们参加 COP29。
我感谢 Sultan Al Jaber 博士和阿联酋总统府在将接力棒交给巴巴耶夫总统和阿塞拜疆时所做的不懈努力。
在困难时期，面对艰巨的任务，我不会为了希望和梦想而努力。
激励我的是人类的聪明才智和决心。我们有能力被击倒，然后一遍又一遍地站起来，直到我们实现我们的目标。
在这张照片中，与我站在一起的女士是我在卡里亚库的邻居弗洛伦斯。今年 7 月，这就是我们，站在飓风 Beryl 摧毁后她家所剩无几的地方。
仅今年一年，85 岁的弗洛伦斯就成为数百万气候变化失控的受害者之一。
她专注于一件事：为她的家庭和她的社区坚强。
地球上每个国家都有像 Florence 这样的人。被撞倒了，然后又站起来了。
《联合国气候变化框架公约》的这一进程是我们应对猖獗的气候危机的唯一场所，也是我们可信地相互问责以采取行动的唯一场所。
我们知道这个过程正在发挥作用。因为没有它，人类将走向全球变暖 5 度。
在这些大厅里，我们每年都会就拼图的特定部分进行谈判。它感觉与 Florence 客厅发生的事情相去甚远。我们不能继续破坏每个国家的生活和生计——所以让我们把这件事变成现实：
你希望你的杂货和能源账单进一步上涨吗？
您希望您的国家在经济上失去竞争力吗？
你真的想要进一步的全球动荡，付出宝贵的生命代价吗？
这场危机正在以某种方式影响着世界上的每一个人。
我和任何人一样感到沮丧，因为一次 COP 无法实现每个国家都需要的全面转型。但是，如果你对这些问题的任何回答是否定的，那么各方需要在这里就摆脱这个混乱的方法达成一致。
这就是我们来到巴库的原因。我们必须就一个新的全球气候融资目标达成一致。
如果世界上至少有三分之二的国家无法负担得起快速减排，那么每个国家都会付出惨痛的代价。
如果各国不能在供应链中建立弹性，整个全球经济都将陷入瘫痪。没有一个国家能幸免。
因此，让我们摒弃气候融资是慈善的想法。一个雄心勃勃的新气候融资目标完全符合每个国家的自身利益，包括最大和最富有的国家。
但仅仅就一个目标达成一致是不够的。我们必须更加努力地改革全球金融体系。为各国提供他们迫切需要的财政空间。
在巴库，我们必须通过最终确定第 6 条来启动和运行国际碳市场。
我们需要推进缓解措施，以便实现迪拜的目标。
我们不能让 1.5 从遥不可及的地方溜走。即使气温上升，我们协议的实施也必须将它们收回来。
到 2024 年，清洁能源和基础设施投资将达到 2 万亿美元。几乎是化石燃料的两倍。
向清洁能源和气候适应力的转变不会停止。我们的工作是加速实现这一目标，并确保所有国家和所有人民都能分享其巨大利益。
我们必须就适应目标达成一致。您无法管理不衡量的东西。我们需要知道我们是否正走在提高韧性的道路上。
我们必须继续完善新的损失和损害财政和技术支持机制。
我们不能在黑暗中做出决定。将于今年发布的两年期透明度报告将让我们更清楚地了解我们正在取得的进展，以及我们需要填补的差距。
[明年]，所有国家都将推出第三代国家气候计划（NDC）。
为了支持各国制定和传播这些计划，UNFCCC 将发起气候计划运动。
它将动员所有利益相关者采取行动，并与联合国秘书长和即将上任的巴西缔约方大会主席的努力保持一致。
与此同时，我们将从 2025 年开始重新启动气候周。使它们与我们的流程及其必须交付的结果更紧密地保持一致。
在秘书处，我们将继续不知疲倦地利用我们所拥有的资源，同时明确我们需要什么资金，以便我们能够实现日益增长的需求。
我们将继续关注所有观察员安全、包容和有意义地参与本届 COP。
在过去几年中，我们向前迈出了一些历史性步伐。我们不能在没有实质性成果的情况下离开巴库。缔约方认识到这一时刻的重要性，必须采取相应的行动。
在 COP29 上展示决心和聪明才智 – 我们需要所有各方从一开始就推动达成协议 – 站出来并交付。
现在是时候表明全球合作并没有被淘汰了。因此，我敦促你们所有人，让我们一起站起来。
谢谢你。
Excellencies, Delegates, Colleagues, Friends,
It is an honor to welcome you to COP29.
I thank Dr. Sultan Al Jaber and the Emirati Presidency for their tireless work, as they pass the baton to President Babayev and Azerbaijan.
In tough times, up against difficult tasks, I don’t go in for hopes and dreams.
What inspires me is human ingenuity and determination. Our ability to get knocked down and to get up again over and over again, until we accomplish our goals.
The lady I’m standing with, in this picture, is my neighbour, Florence, in Carriacou. In July this year, this was us, standing in all that remained of her home after the devastation of Hurricane Beryl.
At 85, Florence has become one of the millions of victims of runaway climate change this year alone.
She was focused on one thing: Being strong for her family and strong for her community.
And there are people like Florence in every country on Earth. Knocked down, and getting back up again.
This UNFCCC process is the only place we have to address the rampant climate crisis, and to credibly hold each other to account to act on it.
And we know this process is working. Because without it, humanity would be headed towards five degrees of global warming.
In these halls, we negotiate on specific pieces of the puzzle each year. It can feel far away from what’s happening in Florence’s living room. We cannot afford to continue up-ending lives and livelihoods in every nation - so let’s make this real:
Do you want your grocery and energy bills to go up even more?
Do you want your country to become economically uncompetitive?
Do you really want even further global instability, costing precious life?
This crisis is affecting every single individual in the world one way or another.
And I’m as frustrated as anyone that one single COP can’t deliver the full transformation that every nation needs. But if any of your answers to those questions was no, then it is here that Parties need to agree a way out of this mess.
That’s why we're here in Baku. We must agree a new global climate finance goal.
If at least two thirds of the world's nations cannot afford to cut emissions quickly, then every nation pays a brutal price.
If nations can’t build resilience into supply chains, the entire global economy will be brought to its knees. No country is immune.
So, let's dispense with the idea that climate finance is charity. An ambitious new climate finance goal is entirely in the self-interest of every single nation, including the largest and wealthiest.
But it’s not enough to just agree on a goal. We must work harder to reform the global financial system. Giving countries the fiscal space they so desperately need.
And here in Baku, we must get international carbon markets up and running, by finalising Article 6.
We need to move forward on mitigation, so targets from Dubai are realized.
We mustn’t let 1.5 slip out of reach. And even as temperatures rise, the implementation of our agreements must claw them back.
Clean energy and infrastructure investment will reach two trillion dollars in 2024. Almost twice that of fossil fuels.
The shift to clean-energy and climate-resilience will not be stopped. Our job is to accelerate this and make sure its huge benefits are shared by all countries and all people.
We must agree adaptation targets. You can't manage what you don't measure. And we need to know if we're on a pathway to increasing resilience.
And we must continue to improve the new mechanisms for financial and technical support on loss and damage.
We can’t make decisions in the dark. Biennial Transparency Reports, due this year, will give us a clearer picture of the progress we're making, and the gaps that we need to fill.
[Next] year, all countries will deliver their third generation of national climate plans – NDCs.
To support countries in creating and communicating them, the UNFCCC will launch a Climate Plan Campaign.
It will mobilise action from all stakeholders, and align with the efforts of the UN Secretary-General and the incoming Brazilian COP Presidency.
In parallel, we'll re-start Climate Weeks from 2025. Aligning them more closely with our process and the outcomes it must deliver.
At the Secretariat, we will continue to work tirelessly with what we have got, while being clear on what funding we need, so we can deliver on what’s increasingly being asked of us.
And we will keep focus on the safe, inclusive, and meaningful participation of all observers at this COP.
In the past few years, we’ve taken some historic steps forward. We cannot leave Baku without a substantial outcome. Appreciating the importance of this moment, Parties must act accordingly.
Show determination and ingenuity here at COP29 – We need all parties to push for agreement right from the start - To stand and deliver.
Now it is the time to show that global cooperation is not down for the count. So I urge you all, let us rise together.
I thank you.
