Governments’ inaction on climate is ‘dangerous says UN Secretary General

Berlin: UN Secretary General António Guterres has warned that it is a “dangerous” trend on the part of governments not to take any action on the environment.

Guterres said that scientists and citizens are calling for efforts to combat climate change while there is a “big dangerous gap” over what governments are actually doing in this direction.

Guterres said there is a need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent in the current decade, but currently they are projected to increase by 14 per cent. Addressing the Environment Conference in Austria, Guterres said the Russian war in Ukraine has increased the risk of the crisis going from bad to worse as major economies have doubled their dependence on conventional fuel

Conventional fuels are most responsible for global warming. Guterres urged countries to completely end the use of coal by 2040 and replace stone fuels with renewable sources of energy.