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Mr.

President Erdoğan,

thank you for your wonderful hospitality and the excellent organization of the COP. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

Our first climate duty is to tell the truth.

The brutal truth is that the climate crisis is outrunning us. Emissions in 2025 reached all-time highs. Its records keep shattering.

The last four years were the hottest ever.

Fossil fuel interests keep making a killing while killing our planet.

Climate disasters are pounding lives, livelihoods and economies across the globe.

This is the path to mutually assured destruction.

11 years ago in Paris, the world pledged to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

Science tells us that an overshoot about that level is now inevitable.

Science is not telling us to surrender, it is telling us to fight harder.

The truth is that we have the power to determine how high, how long and how devastating that overshoot will be.

We have the power to make sure the overshoot is a temporary breach, not a permanent sentence. But that demands leadership.

We know the truth, now we must act on it.

Because climate action is more than a fight over a number or a thermometer.

We are in the fight for our lives and our children's future.

Excellencies, I want to share three lessons from the past decade to guide the decade ahead. Lesson one exponential change is possible.

10 years ago, solar generated 1% of the world's electricity.

Last year, solar power alone met nearly 75% of the growth in global electricity demands.

A decade ago, 1 in every 100 cars sold was electric.

This year, it is said to be nearly 1 in 3.

Clean energy is now the cheapest source of new electricity across most of the world.

It is advancing even where political headwinds are strongest. That takes us to lesson number 2. The case for fossil fuels is collapsing.

75% of humanity lives in countries that import fossil fuels,

hostage to price shocks they did not create and they cannot control.

Recent conflicts made clear that this is a recipe for chronic insecurity and the cost of living meltdown.

It's time to accelerate a science aligned, just, orderly and equitable transition to renewables.

But let us not underestimate the scale of the challenge.

Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs. That will not happen on its own.

The dinosaurs do not have a lobby, but fossil fuels do. And our strategy is simple.

Distort the science, delay the policy, delay the action, delay the accountability.

It's time to kick the habit and end the fossil fuel addiction. The 3rd lesson. Is the hardest. The world is moving far too slowly.

Global emissions must fall around 6% every year.

Current national plans, including conditional ones,

deliver at best one third of that.

Even if they are fully implemented, the world would be above 2.5 degrees by the end of this century,

crossing dangerous and irreversible tipping points along the way. We need an extraordinary acceleration.

Our planet is heating up, the clock is winding down, it's make or break time. So, Excellencies, we must move faster.

Climate justice is the defining challenge of the next decade.

We cannot demand that countries transform their economies while denying them the means to do so.

Emerging and developing economies outside China are home to nearly 2/3 of humanity.

Yet they receive less than 1/5 of global clean energy investment.

Most pay 2 to 3 times more to borrow.

If they cannot access affordable, clean energy,

fossil fuels will fill the gap, locking in emissions for decades.

If vulnerable communities cannot adapt, instability will spread across borders.

We need a new climate justice compact based on shared responsibility,

shared security and shared benefits.

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities must apply,

and all countries must do their part.

Developed countries cutting emissions faster and delivering the finance and technology they promised,

emerging economies accelerating their shift from fossil fuels to renewables,

and developing countries receiving massive support to adapt.

The Climate Justice Compact rests on 4 pillars.

First, speed a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Leaders, and in particular those from developed countries,

cannot keep expanding fossil fuel production while claiming to be committed to 1.5 degrees.

The recent UNEP emissions gap report is clear.

By 2035, global renewable capacity must at least triple from 2025 levels,

while unabated coal power must fall by at least 75%.

By 2040, bated coal power must be all but phased out,

and oil and gas use cut by around 13.

Every government must align its policies, investments and infrastructure plans accordingly.

That starts with credible, rational roadmaps to transition away from fossil fuels,

protecting workers and communities affected.

That means no new coal, no new oil and gas infrastructure that puts 1.5 degrees further out of reach,

slashing methane emissions, expanding renewables, grids, storage and clean electrification at bullet speed,

safeguarding forests, oceans and biodiversity.

We have a choice either plan this just transition or pay for it in chaos and lost livelihoods. Second, protect people.

As temperatures rise, adaptation is a matter of survival.

An overshoot of about 1.5 degrees demands a transformational approach to adaptation,

requiring a new generation of national adaptation plans with the international community supporting the developing countries.

Every person on earth must be covered by an early warning system and every community protected from floods,

droughts and rising seas.

When adaptation reaches its limits, support for loss and damage must be swift and accessible.

Third, finance must be adequate, affordable and readily available.

Developed countries must lead in delivering at least $300 billion US dollars a year by 2035 and set out concrete plans with clear milestones to at least triple adaptation finance by then.

The $1.3 trillion goal must become real finance flowing to developing countries,

and this demands that every source of finance pull its weight.

Multilateral development banks must go beyond their Baku commitment of EUR €120 billion a year by 2030.

Shareholders must empower them to lend more, mobilize more private investment and take more risks.

Deploy more innovative instruments to better meet the needs and circumstances of vulnerable developing countries,

and donors must ensure meaningful and ambitious replenishment of the Greer Climate Fund and the Fund for Responding to loss and damage.

Private investments also must back the transition in developing countries,

and south south cooperation must increasingly help to expand access to technology and finance.

Those who profit most from fossil fuels must help foot the bill for the damage they have caused.

In the last quarter alone,

the nine largest oil companies pocketed $95 billion in profits.

Meanwhile, the loss and Damage Fund has received around 600 million.

That is what these companies made in about 14 hours.

So it is time for governments to tax these windfall profits and use them to help vulnerable countries recover. Polluters must pay. Fourth, we must choose cooperation over fragmentation.

A world divided by trade barriers, technology monopolies,

and geopolitical rivalry means a transition that costs more,

takes longer and leaves billions behind.

We do not need countries to agree on everything,

but we do need them to cooperate on the things no country can solve alone. The climate process itself must evolve.

Negotiations matter, but success must be measured on the ground. Implementation is essential.

Across the United Nations, we are bringing countries and partners together on grids,

critical minerals, methane and early warnings, and through our climate promise forwards. This must become the model.

Excellencies, history has handed us a remarkable opportunity to build economies that are cleaner,

societies that are fairer, and a world that is safer.

This is a climate agenda, an agenda for sustainable development, peace and security. And an agenda for human dignity.

Excellencies I want to end with a message to all those on the front lines of climate action young people,

scientists, indigenous peoples, civil society, small island developing states.

You are the conscience of this struggle,

and you have been standing up to some of the most powerful moneyed special interests in our world today.

Yet, when others saw only obstacles, you saw possibilities. When others accepted delay, you demanded acceleration.

When others looked away, you told the truth. Excellencies and dear friends.

Starting next year, I will no longer be Secretary General.

But you can count on this I will not stop telling the truth, and I will not stop fighting for it.

I will be standing side by side with you. As an advocate and an ally.

Together, let's keep telling the truth about the climate crisis, let's keep demanding the action that truth requires,

and let's keep fighting for the sustainable future we know is in our hands,

and I will be with you every step of the way.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr.

Secretary General, for this insightful.