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.â€
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.
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