United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the annual high-level debate at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday – where over 100 heads of government are expected to speak, demanding $100 billion from “developed countries” to fight allegedly deadly “climate chaos.”
Guterres made the “climate crisis” a core part of the address, the first as per tradition at the event. [emphasis, links added]
“No more dirty production. No more fake solutions. No more bankrolling climate denial,” the U.N. chief demanded.
Guterres’s call for countries to invest $100 billion in “developing country climate action” and another unspecified amount in the U.N.’s “Green Climate Fund” follows the publication of a report last week revealing that his organization’s claims of carbon neutrality are largely fraudulent, based on a system known as “carbon credits” where the U.N. pays off allegedly “green” projects to offset its own emissions.
Many of those projects, non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian found are of dubious value in combatting climate change and some actively hurt their local environments.
U.N. agencies emit pollution “roughly equal to the annual emissions of 1.5 million gasoline-powered cars,” the agencies found.
Guterres nonetheless portrayed the United Nations as a leader in the fight against “climate chaos,” a phrase he used repeatedly throughout his speech.
He began his remarks by noting the massive human loss in Derna, Libya, following the rupture of neglected dams amid unprecedented flooding.
The death toll in Derna currently stands above 11,000 people and is expected to potentially reach 20,000.
The casualties, Guterres claimed, were “victims of climate chaos” and “victims of leaders near and far who failed to find a way to peace.”
“As we speak, bodies are washing ashore from the same Mediterranean Sea where billionaires sunbake on their superyachts. Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of our world,” he lamented.
Guterres returned to the climate issue after his introduction, calling it “the most immediate threat to our future.”
“Climate change is not just a change in the weather. Climate change is changing life on our planet. It is affecting every aspect of our work. It is killing people and devastating communities,” he claimed, later warning, “This is only the beginning.”
“The fossil fuel age has failed. If fossil fuel companies want to be part of the solution, they must lead the transition to renewable energy,” Guterres asserted.
“Developed countries must reach net zero as close as possible to 2040, and emerging economies as close as possible to 2050. Developed countries must finally deliver the $100 billion for developing country climate action, as promised; And replenish the Green Climate Fund, as promised.”
The money is part of several “drastic steps” Guterres said the alleged emergency requires “to ensure climate justice.”
Guterres heartened climate alarmism advocates, asserting they were “on the right side of history” and promising, “I won’t give up this fight for our lives.”
Outside of his demands for funding to fight the climate, Guterres also asked countries to “urgently advance” a $500-billion-a-year contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Stimulus.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are 17 aspirational objectives the United Nations has pressured countries to embrace, with minimal specifics, for the past decade. They include ending hunger, ending poverty, “reducing inequalities,” and “climate action.” …
Guterres also demanded countries fight “hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories on social media platforms,” which he claimed were “amplified by AI” and a cause of concern for the world.
“Democracy is under threat, authoritarianism is on the march, inequalities are growing and hate speech is on the rise,” Guterres added.
Guterres has spent much of his tenure promoting a “global digital compact” to force countries to police speech online.
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Note that a big part of the speech is an effort to get something for nothing for the developing nations. Christiana Figueres, former head of the IPCC, readily admits that the real climate change agenda has nothing to do with the environment, but instead is about redistribution of wealth. There was a period of a few years where the media coverage just before a climate conference in third world nations had many articles on the expected money they would receive. The historical expectation is the United States would provide 40% of the funds being demanded. Fortunately it is unlikely that such funding could be approved by Congress.
The United Nations was moribund when Khrushchev beat the podium with the heel of his shoe. Lately, Russia chaired the Security Council while invading Ukraine. Everyone exiting UN headquarters should be deloused.
I hope I live long enough to see the UN fail and disband. It has been useless for many years.
I keep hoping we get a president who recognize what a disaster the UN has been for the last several decades and kick it out of the US as well as we stop paying for most of their budget. I’m sure the property developer Donald Trump could find something to do with the Turtle Bay land that the UN occupies for free.
Half of your wish has already come true. You have lived long enough to see the UN fail.
Why don’t this illustrious blowhard go sell pencil on 5th Avenue instead of forcing the American Tax Payers to cover the costs for his Private Jet Trips