U.N. Chief Guterres Orders Cancellation of All Global Coal Projects

[Elderberry]

Breitbart by Simon Kent 3 Mar 2021

Future global coal projects must be immediately cancelled 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.

More: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/03/u-n-chief-guterres-orders-cancellation-of-all-global-coal-projects/

[thackney]

How fortunate he has no power to make this happen.

[Sled Dog]

So I see that the UN is going to need a new chief.  His family will miss him, I'm sure.
China don't like people threatening their coal supplies.

[jafo2010]

What an idiot. 

The time is long overdue to challenge these fruitloops about climate change.  After listening to a climate scientist on with Mark Levin one night, I do not believe climate change is even remotely an issue.  Just one more scam from fruitloops looking to scam the western nations out of wealth.

The scientist was brilliant.  And he basically said the models used to determine climate change are based on many false assumptions.  The fact that the models are based on assumptions in my mind render them worthless.  Science my *ss!!!!

[mikezpen]

The Western nations will take that kind of nonsense seriously; China will simply laugh.