Climate Change is the name commonly given to the notion that the Earth is undergoing a changing climate as a result of human activity, including notable leaders, scientists and naturalists including Sir David Attenborough.

Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns.

United Nations Web TV captured a side event at COP 26 – the Ethics of Climate Change: Round table at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) between United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Lord Williams, R. Sennett, Saskia Sassen and Maryam Grassly.

Many in the environmental movement have argued in recent years that in order to speed up climate actions we should take the ethics out of the climate change debate. Focusing on the moral obligation to act or on the effects of climate change on the most vulnerable was often judged to render the discourse too “heavy,” “negative,” or “difficult.” Many also deemed it unnecessary. After all, renewable energies, better designed cities that allow for reduced car use, and power plant regulations that lead to cleaner local air—to take just three examples—all have real and substantial benefits unrelated to the fact that they are “the right thing to do” in the face of climate change. They create jobs, reduce health problems and costs, and make society fitter.

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Round table at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) between United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Lord Williams, R. Sennett, Saskia Sassen and Maryam Grassly.

Opening remarks by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at Round table at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) between United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Lord Williams, R. Sennett, Saskia Sassen and Maryam Grassly.