Last chance for effective climate change actions

Editor's note: The 10-day High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2019, which started on Tuesday last week in the United Nation's headquarters in New York, is coming to a close. Zhong Sheng, a People's Daily columnist, comments:

At the forum, the UN Economic and Social Council issued a progress report on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in which it pointed out that climate change is one of the biggest challenges to sustainable development. This should be a reminder once again of the urgency of tackling climate change and the need for concerted action by all parties.

It should be a consensus that policymakers in all countries take concrete measures to address climate change.