Guterres: Fossil fuels must die out like dinosaurs.
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on Wednesday, November 11, during the opening speech of the annual UN Climate Change Summit (Cup 31), called for a just transition to renewable energy and "getting rid of fossil fuels like dinosaurs".
Guterres said in his last speech as UN Secretary-General at the climate change summit, referring to the consequences of the Iran and Ukraine wars on the energy markets: "Three quarters of humanity live in countries that import fossil fuels and have become hostages to price shocks that they did not create and cannot control."
The Secretary General of the United Nations, in an unprecedented criticism of groups that influence politicians' decisions (lobbies), said: "Fossil fuels must suffer the fate of dinosaurs and become extinct." But it won't happen by itself. "Dinosaurs didn't have lobbies, but they have fossil fuels."
Global warming and climate change, especially since the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7 and the start of the war in the Middle East, have become a "less important" issue on the agenda of world leaders and even protest movements.