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00:00President Xi Jinping

00:02President Xi Jinping

00:04President Xi Jinping

00:06It has been a great pleasure to attend the Berlin Climate Summit

00:10as a special representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

00:13First of all I have the honor to convey the best wishes

00:17from President Xi Jinping to Brazil for hosting this summit.

00:21President Xi Jinping highly commends

00:25the important contributions made by the Brazilian Presidency

00:29presidency to global climate governance, and wishes COP30 a full success.

00:42This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, and global climate governance

00:49is entering a critical stage.

00:52China has made notable achievements in implementing its 2030 nationally determined

00:58contributions, and achieved ahead of schedule the targets of installed capacity of wind

01:05and solar power, and total forest stock.

01:11At the United Nations Climate Summit on September 24th, President Xi Jinping solemnly announced

01:20China's 2035 NDCs, covering all economic sectors and all greenhouse gases.

01:30This is the first time that China put forward an absolute emissions reduction target, which

01:37is a testament to China's firm resolve at a maximum effort.

01:43The just concluded Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee

01:49deliberated over and adopted the recommendations for the economic and social development plan

01:54over the next five years.

01:56It made important arrangements for building a beautiful China, and stressed that, guided by

02:02the goals of achieving peak carbon and carbon neutrality, China will make concerted efforts

02:08to cut carbon emissions, reduce pollution, pursue green development, and boost economic growth,

02:15that reinforce ecological security shields, and strengthen green development drivers.

02:21China is a country that honors its commitments.

02:25China will accelerate the green transition in all areas of economic and social development,

02:33work actively and prudently toward peak carbon emissions, and make greater contributions to

02:39addressing climate change.

02:41Colleagues, humanity now stands at a new crossroads.

02:47It is imperative for all parties to uphold true multilateralism, strengthen solidarity and

02:54coordination, and make sustained progress in global climate governance.

03:00To this end, I would like to make three propositions.

03:04First, we should keep to the right direction.

03:08Green and low-carbon transition is the trend of the times.

03:13We need to stay confident, balance such goals as environmental protection, economic development,

03:21job creation, and poverty eradication.

03:25Seek coordinated progress on livelihood improvement and climate governance, and promote high-quality

03:32development to deliver greater benefits to the people of all countries.

03:38Second, we should translate climate commitments into action.

03:43The key to addressing climate change lies in taking action.

03:48We need to abide by the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, fully and effectively

03:54implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and uphold international

04:02fairness and justice in the course of action and implementation.

04:07Developed countries should take the lead in fulfilling emission reduction obligations, deliver

04:13on their finance commitments, and provide more technology and capacity-building support

04:19to developing countries.

04:21Third, we should deepen openness and cooperation.

04:25The global transition toward green and low-carbon growth calls for a sound environment for international

04:32economic and trade cooperation.

04:35We need to strengthen international collaboration on green technology and industry, remove trade barriers,

04:42and ensure the free flow of quality green products to better meet the needs of global sustainable

04:48development.

04:50China is ready to work with all parties to unswervingly promote green and low-carbon development,

04:57and build a beautiful world of harmony between humanity and nature.

05:04We would like to invite, at this moment, the representative from Colombia, President Gustavo Petro.

05:21I asked my team, President Lula, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary of the United Nations and delegations

05:47of several countries all over the world, I asked my team to be more radical in order

05:56to achieve the goals of life, recognizing that we are facing a failure.

06:07Those are mild words, but they become ghosts because of the reality that we need to understand.

06:19After 29 cops, after speeches, and some of them I gave those speeches, and also we are facing

06:29a failure.

06:30A failure can be measured by science in terms of temperature, in terms of the law of thermodynamics.

06:38And this failure is because, first of all, because of the lobby of the interests of oil, carbon,

06:49gas, gas, gas in this assembly, and all the cops, the wish of having gains, profits, going against

07:02life, and this is immoral, this is not human.

07:11And we're having the cops once again, and the same lobby in some nations more than others,

07:22and they are asking for the results, the results that can be measured.

07:29The number 1.5 degrees that we didn't want to achieve, but we have achieved.

07:38And we are closer to something that is not called a climate crisis.

07:45And we started talking about change, and then a crisis, and now we are close to a climate

07:52collapse, which means the point of no return, in other words, general death of the existence

08:02in this planet.

08:03And it's not an apocalypses, literary apocalypses, if you will, but it's a real apocalypses.

08:13And what are the facts that are avoiding us to achieve the goals?

08:22It's not from left wing or right wing, but it's the common goal of humankind.

08:29Number 1, the lack of the United States here.

08:36And Mr. Donald Trump is not present here, the one that has a behavior, a personal behavior

08:43to deny science, and the society is then turning their eyes away and going towards an abyss.

08:55So Donald Trump, it's not right, because we can see the collapse that can happen if the

09:04United States does not decarbonize their economy.

09:09So it's 100% wrong, the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

09:18Number 2, those that are investing in Europe in more weapons, according to the GDP, and this

09:27is a mistake of Europe if they accept.

09:31It's not a problem of defense, of security.

09:34It's not Russia the enemy.

09:37It's the climate crisis the enemy.

09:41And your grandchildren, ladies and gentlemen, presidents, prime ministers, we are facing this

09:51risk also in Europe, in the whole humanity.

09:58So the death is the enemy, and then the dangers from past times like Napoleon in a Russia that

10:11is also part of Europe.

10:13Number 3, we have the threats of invasion, and we're losing time.

10:20We can see those invasions, we can see genocides, we can see threats also invading Venezuela, or

10:31maybe threats to invade Colombia, threats to invade Cuba.

10:36And also I was considered by Trump as a leader of drug trafficking, and I was the first one

10:47to fight against drug trafficking in Colombia, increasing and seizing cocaine, and just to

10:57silence me in those events and not to face the reality.

11:03And also threats to invade Brazil, threats to invade Mexico, and also real invasion to the

11:12Colombian Caribbean.

11:14And the missiles going to Gaza Strip, we can see in poor people that are the employees of

11:24drug traffickers, drug traffickers, or even fishermen in the speedboats in the Caribbean.

11:31More than 70 died.

11:34And breaking the rights, human rights, in terms of the proportionality of the force.

11:43So extrajudicial measures in the Caribbean, near this region here.

11:50And also continuing policies against migration done with Nazi style against our peoples, against

12:03also Arabic people, Sub-Saharian people.

12:08Also continuing, we haven't seen the missiles going over the Caribbean.

12:13So those policies that are produced over those two years in Dubai.

12:20So we lost time.

12:23Those are ghosts in order to gain votes in the countries of power.

12:31Those that are CO2 emissions and those that are doing nothing against climate crisis.

12:37So those are excuses invented because they want to gain more money with the oil lobby.

12:48And then we get closer to the climate collapse.

12:52What do we do?

12:54Without a doubt, the gold cannot be a different one.

13:00As soon as possible, because it's a race against our clock.

13:07So we need to contribute decarbonized economy, zero carbon, zero oil, zero gas.

13:16We need to have a decarbonized economy.

13:20It's like building a life economy, an economy for life, like what we say in Costa Rica.

13:30And nowadays, literally, Mr. Trump is against humankind.

13:38Not coming here, and we can see that.

13:41So Trump is against humankind.

13:45So what should we do?

13:49Should we leave him alone?

13:50Should we forget about him?

13:54Forgetting is the biggest punishment.

13:57So when we want to talk, we talk, but about life, not anything else.

14:06So what are we going to do?

14:09So I'm part of this progressive mindset.

14:13So I can say that life is our flag.

14:18We cannot have a fossil progressive mindset.

14:22So we need to define that our flag is to take humankind towards life.

14:29And that's the real goal.

14:31That's the short, real goal that we have.

14:34And here in America, where I come from, in each part we can make a similar effort.

14:40We can have a concrete proposal, $500,000 in Latin America and Caribbean.

14:53From the Arabic world, you can come from China.

14:56You can come from Europe, we can receive you.

15:01You can come from the United States with $500,000.

15:10You can achieve that what is a potential now can become a reality.

15:16So we can have 1,400 giga of generation of clean energy.

15:25We have this huge potential that can become true.

15:28It is in our soil, in our winds, in our water.

15:33So in our Vulcans also, 1,400 giga every year and Africa can do the same.

15:46If the matrix of electric energy in the United States generate 1,200 giga per year, 700 percent,

15:57this fossil fuel, we can do the math if we invest $500 million here also cleaning 100 percent

16:08the energy matrix of the United States.

16:11So in other words, one important step, a crucial step to avoid from this crisis to reach this

16:19climate collapse and we need to save the existence here in planet Earth.

16:30Also, we have two other ways, Mr. President.

16:36In South America, where you are part and where I'm part, and many of us here.

16:42So in Latin America, we can propose, we have concrete proposals.

16:52So also, we need resources and we can provide resources so that we can save the forest, which

16:59is the third climate pillar of the world, just like the columns of Hercules.

17:07And they can hold life in this planet and paying tribute to the world biodiversity.

17:16So in Endes, where those rivers are born, the biggest one that crosses this region, connecting

17:28with the Atlantic Ocean, also producing this beauty, if we save the Amazon forest, if we reach

17:43the natural border and if we revitalize it, we will be contributing to the life of humankind,

17:56which means that we are going to see forests where we don't have it.

18:02So Colombia, before we had 80,000 hectares of plantations of cocaine, but now abandoned,

18:16and now they can become a forest again.

18:22And between the mountains and also between the rivers.

18:30And that's where the river comes from.

18:32And if we don't have that in Venezuela, in Colombia, in Bolivia, in Peru, we will not have a standing

18:39tree.

18:41And here Belen do Pará will become a desert and also the existence.

18:48We know that we have reached this point of climate collapse.

18:53And also the first charter that South America produced so that we can help each other.

19:00We can save life.

19:03We don't need the North to do so.

19:06We need humankind.

19:08And number two, without a doubt, we can clean the dirty matrix of electric generation, the

19:18generation of energy of the United States, accumulator of CO2, the biggest one in the world, and responsible

19:28for the crisis and the possibility of climate collapse.

19:34So what do we need?

19:36We need $500 million.

19:40And also having this energy production, but clean energy, we need to build a modern network

19:48and smart network of cables for electric energy from Patagonia until Alaska.

19:57And we almost have that.

19:59If those two things, if we achieve that, and also other elements in order to transport electric

20:08energy, South America can clean 100% all the matrix of electric energy from Patagonia to Alaska, including

20:21the matrix of electric energy of the United States.

20:26And we don't need Trump to do so.

20:29Let's forget him.

20:31What we need?

20:32We need agreements with the states of the United States, like California, New Mexico,

20:38Texas, Florida, Illinois, so on and so forth, New York, if you want to do so.

20:45And we need this agreement here in Latin America and the Caribbean so that our countries can

20:53build and connect this grid of electric energy.

20:57And we need a world agreement as well with China.

21:02And we need to speak.

21:03And also with the Arab world, investing in oil.

21:09And that can become clean energy, investments, prosperity for their people.

21:16Also with Africa because they can do the same such as South America with Europe.

21:22Europe that now, tomorrow, I believe, or after tomorrow, in the beautiful city of

21:29Santa Marta, the heart of the world according to indigenous people, the

21:36energy center of the planet according to the urban legend, heart of the world to

21:42save life, President Lula, President Boric, President of Latin America.

21:48So we need to work with Europe. In Santa Marta, they arrived with their ships, and

22:00they conquered, and they have the first American city, just like a century, like

22:07the indigenous peoples, they were able to resist with their weapons. So it took a

22:13century, this war, so that civilization, the ancestral civilization in America

22:20could resist the European civilizations that arrived in order to conquer. Five

22:26centuries after that, November 9th, we would like to be together again, but

22:33without weapons, we would like to embrace each other, we'd like to be honest, and

22:40also to find the civilizations and not to do the opposite. So the war between the

22:48civilizations is the end of humankind before climate collapse. So this meeting

22:55between the civilizations, having this dialogue, is this possibility in Santa Marta, so we can

23:04find Latin America, the Caribbean, and also Western Europe in order to discuss several topics.

23:14But one of them is to be a light of democracy, so that we can have a decarbonized economy and we can

23:24invest where we have this potential of clean energy in order to become an energy for the world.

23:31So to become life, in other words, so that we can build this economy for life.

23:36So I would like to have you all in Santa Marta, so the heart of the world, beautiful place in the Caribbean,

23:46so that we can talk about life and talk about humanity and planet Earth. Thank you so much.

23:57President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, as he was addressing this COP30 summit in Belém do Pará in Brazil.

24:08Let's recall that today is the first day of this summit that is taking place in Brazil at this moment,

24:17summoned by the Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva.

24:20We were listening to the Colombian representative, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro at this moment,

24:26addressing some very important points. One of the things he was pointing out, of course,

24:31at the absence of the United States, one of the most responsible for the climate crisis and risk of climate collapse.

24:39President Pedro has been very much outspoken and a great world leader in favor of the need of transition to clean energy.

24:48And that was among the concrete proposals that he was pointing at and the possibility that Latin America,

24:54united with other countries and other parts of the global South, can achieve an energy transition to clean energy.

25:03And this can be done without President Donald Trump.

25:08What does the global South need to do about President Donald Trump that disregards climate crisis in general?

25:15Was one of the questions being asked by President Pedro?

25:18Well, they can just ignore him and build on concrete proposals and inter-regional agreements.

25:25We will have more on this COP30 summit, so stay tuned with Tell us your English.

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