UN General Assembly
2022

Young people are harshly critical of the many forums, summits and declarations on climate change and the preservation of the environment and natural resources that continue to be held while emissions and deforestation increase without restraint, along with the contamination of water, aquifers, rivers and oceans. How can we win the trust of new generations while the planet where we live, and our descendants will have to live, is being destroyed before their eyes? How many more lives must be lost? How many more natural disasters must take place? I wonder: when are they going to stop the ecocide? From this rostrum, we remind the big emitters of gases, those that encourage deforestation and those that dump chemicals that pollute and kill, that it is matter of the survival of the Earth and the species that inhabit it. Today, before this gathering of nations, Panama proposes that the time has come for the world to have an international body to hold all those that inflict damage on the planet accountable.