SAO PAULO: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that global issues including Inequality and climate change should be addressed immediately, Western media reported on Wednesday. He highlighted several global issues he termed as critical during his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
Brazil’s Lula Calls for Immediate Action on Inequality, Climate Change
He also pinpointed climate change, gender equality, the global wealth gap, freedom of the press, and the significance of global cooperation and collective action to resolve these pressing global concerns as soon as possible.
He started by expressing solidarity with the victims of natural disasters that hit several nations this month, including the quake in Morocco, the flood in Libya, and a cyclone in Brazil that stuck southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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He underlined his durable faith in humanity’s ultimate ability to address the challenges it confronts, such as climate change, the perseverance of starvation that affects more than 735 million people across the world, and the increasing global gap between poor and rich.
