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- UN secretary-general António Guterres has called for the removal of oil and gas from the energy mix to combat climate change.
- Rising sea levels are a crisis caused by humanity, with the Pacific Islands being particularly vulnerable.
- Guterres urged to cut emissions to prevent additional sea level rise in the Pacific.
- Guterres has previously called for a ban on advertising for fossil fuel companies to help mitigate climate change effects.
- Exxon Mobil predicts crude demand will remain high until 2050, despite the introduction of electric vehicles.
UN secretary-general António Guterres has asked world leaders to remove oil and gas from the energy mix and stop further exploration, with greenhouse gases “cooking our planet”.
Guterres, speaking from Tonga during a meeting of Pacific Island leaders at the start of this week, said “rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making” and will soon “swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety”.
He added that big polluters have a responsibility to cut emissions, particularly in the Pacific, which Guterres described as “the most vulnerable area of the world”.
Read the full post at Energy Monitor.
