Priyanka Chopra Jonas Addresses Climate Crises at UN Assembly

People.com: Priyanka Chopra Jonas is addressing the climate crisis.

In a speech shared by the United Nations via YouTube on Monday, the Quantico star discussed some of the world's most significant issues, including climate change, during her appearance at the 2022 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) opening remarks.

"We meet today at a critical point in our world, at a time when global solidarity is more important than ever," the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador shared."As countries continue to struggle from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the climate crisis appends lives and livelihoods, as conflicts rage, and as poverty displacement, hunger and inequalities destroy the very foundation of the more just world that we have fought for for such a long time," Chopra Jonas, 40, continued.

Noting that "all is not well with our world," she added, "These crises did not happen by chance but they can be fixed with a plan."

"We have that plan, the UN sustainable development goals — a to-do list for the world," she explained. "These goals were created hand in hand with people around the world in 2015; together we have an extraordinary opportunity to change the world that we live in."

"We owe it to our people, we owe it to our planet," she said.

Chopra Jonas has worked with UNICEF as a global Goodwill Ambassador for more than a decade, visiting places in need like Zimbabwe and India's Mumbai slums.

After winning Miss World in 2000, she realized she could make a difference on a global scale.

"I realized I had a position of power, and I could associate myself with causes I really believed in," the Baywatch star told PEOPLE in 2018.

"The field trips are the most special, because you meet incredible kids and survivors," Chopra Jonas shared at the time. "That has been one of my joyous moments, being able to help advocate children's rights and children's welfare around the world. That moved me so much in being able to go to places where these kids have no voice or no one listening to them, and actually shedding light on that."