Chair of UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS): "The effects of climate change are very visible when you look down"

UN stresses need for global cooperation on using outer space

“When I looked down on Earth from space, I saw the beauty and the wounds of our planet. The effects of climate change are very visible when you look down,” said Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, the chair of UNCOPUOS, reflecting on his time in space as the first Romanian astronaut in space.