UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on governments to declare a "state of climate emergency".

At a virtual summit where countries renewed their greenhouse gas reduction commitments. Five years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, the most ambitious ever to reduce the impact of climate change, a pandemic forced the date to be commemorated virtually. At the one-day summit organized by the United Nations together with the United Kingdom and France and attended by 75 world leaders, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, pointed out that the goal set in 2015 to limit global warming to a maximum of 2ºC, in relation to pre-industrial levels, "is not moving in the right direction" and that, "if there is no change of course", "3ºC could be exceeded this century". Against this backdrop, Guterres urged world leaders to declare a state of "climate emergency" to encourage faster cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.