Future global coal projects must be immediately canceled to end the “deadly addiction” to fossil fuels by the close of the decade, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
Phasing out coal from the electricity sector is the single most important step to tackle the climate crisis, he said. Guterres’s call came at the opening of a virtual summit of the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), a group of governments and businesses committed to ending coal burning for power.
He said:
Today, I am calling on all governments, private companies and local authorities to take three steps.
First, cancel all global coal projects in the pipeline and end the deadly addiction to coal. Second, end the international financing of coal plants and … third, jump-start a global effort to finally organise a just transition [for coal industry workers], going plant by plant if necessary.”
The veteran Portuguese Socialist called the world’s reliance on coal a “deadly addiction” and appealed for ending international financing for coal and providing greater support to developing countries transitioning to renewable energy.
He spoke even as many countries struggle with the reality of using renewables to provide reliable baseload power to growing, thriving economies.
“I also ask all multilateral and public banks — as well as investors in commercial banks or pension funds — to shift their investments now in the new economy of renewable energy”, he added.
The UN chief called on all countries to embrace the International Labor Organization’s guidelines for a transition and adopt them as a minimum standard.
The U.N. Special Envoy on Climate and Finance agreed. He added his voice to the demand for an end to coal burning, calling on the finance sector to play its part.
Former Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, spoke of the “encouraging” trends he has witnessed over the past five years, claiming the issue has become a “top strategic priority” for business.
“It’s mainstreaming very fast, and it’s mainstreaming in a very positive direction where the search is for the opportunity to accelerate,” he said.
However, the U.N. envoy emphasized that private and public funding, including multilateral development banks, must be aligned, despite the fact the U.S. for one has never been troubled when it comes to finding investors for new coal mines.
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Mr. Guterres should march himself into Xi Jinping’s office and order him to stop all coal projects. I’m sure that would end well.
Wow, the dictator now finally reveals himself. Yes master, imediately master if not sooner master! Really, what climate “emergency”? O that emergency, like we want your money and subservience emergency!
Socialists have always dreamed of the collapse of capitalist society as the recipe for a socialist utopia. Nothing would make that happen quicker than to abandon 85% of the world’s energy. This man is a fool and his position makes him a dangerous fool. Socialist Antonio Guterres and his fake climate crisis have just demonstrated his complete ignorance of the basis of modern civilization – energy. And the basis of life on earth – photosynthesis, the “green” in the environment. The basic ingredients of photosynthesis are sunlight, CO2 and water. Without any one of them, all life on earth dies. And CO2 has been declining from life-enriching levels ten to twenty times those of today at the beginning of multicellular life to within 30ppm of lethal lows during glacial phases of our ongoing Pleistocene Ice Age. While using coal, oil, and gas recycles the precious trace gas of life on earth, CO2, from its entrapment in fossil fuels. Guterras, Bjorn Lomborg estimates fifty-six thousand people die from weather-related causes every year. While up to twelve million die from a LACK OF ENERGY. Your ignorance on the subject is one more reason to completely ignore the UN’s never-ending predictions of the climate crisis that never comes.
Meanwhile, “scientists” are exploring ways to “such” CO2 from the atmosphere and “bury it” in deep basalt underground, which presumably means the millions of trees they say are needed to clean the plant will die. Presumably also they plan to trap all the gases CO2 included, emitted by volcanoes and oceans, and biodecay. Seems he general insanity is growing fast.
Orders?
Meanwhile here’s what the guys who have the political authority to say stuff like that are actually saying.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/05/the-language-of-climate-change-politics/
Time to Cancel the whole Useless Nations evict these invaders and turn the whole facility into Homeless Shelter
As Shoki Kaneda referred to, China is not going slow down its development of coal because of Mr. Guterres calling for ending the funding. China also funds coal projects in other nations. The impact on new coal plants is more likely to happen in places like Africa. There are villages that have never had electricity. Wind and solar are too expensive for these impoverished people. They will remain without power making it impossible to become part of the modern world.
The problem is not this psychopath.
The problem is the traitors in the US government who are supporting the useless garbage UN
If the USA gets out of the UN it would be the end of the UN.
To do that we need to elect Trump in 2024 and after that for another 8 years someone Trump’s like.
Otherwise, we are doomed. You will find yourself in the digital concentration camp and shortly after that in the real one.