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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

SHOCKING: Fears mount that next un chief will downgrade climate action - What They Never Told You

António Guterres speaks into a microphone at a podium
António Guterres must step down at the end of his second five-year term on 31 December. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

Fears are mounting that the next UN secretary general will downgrade the priority of the climate crisis, according to climate and civil society experts.

The current secretary general, António Guterres, has been the most forthright on the subject, calling fossil fuel companies “the godfathers of climate chaos” and warning governments they are rushing down a “highway to hell” by failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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