“The greatest idiocy would be to invest more in what led us to this disaster,” said the Secretary-General, who has not stopped emphasizing that fossil fuels play a central role in global warming.
It would be “idiocy” for humanity to continue gambling in fossil fuels, which “led him to destruction,” he insisted yesterday Wednesday during an interview he gave to the BBC the Secretary General of the United Nationsstressing that if the world had invested instead in renewable energy sources, the energy crisis could have been avoided.
“It is clear that if the world, and especially Europe, had invested massively in renewable energy sources in the last 20 years, we would not be facing the energy crisis we know today and the prices of oil and gas would not be so high. Antonio Guterres said in response to a question from British Public Broadcasting about the war in Ukraine and the consequences of dependence on fossil fuels.
“We didn’t invest enough in renewables and now we’re paying the price,” he added.
“The greatest stupidity would be to invest even more in what led us to this disaster”, judged the General Secretary, who has not ceased to emphasize that fossil fuels play a central role in global warming.
“So let’s learn from the past, investment in renewable energy sources is absolutely vital,” he insisted and repeated his call to tax the super profits of the fossil fuel sector.
With less than two weeks to go until the start of the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt, Mr Guterres called on states to do more to prevent
According to the latest UN estimates, published yesterday, the commitments of the countries that have signed the Paris agreement are still “far” from what they should be if there is any hope of achieving the goals of the fight against climate change , primarily to keep the increase in global temperature below 2° Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era, if possible at 1.5° Celsius.
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains “still possible, but we are on the verge of losing that possibility”, the UN Secretary-General warned.
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