Article 6NA9T ‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban

‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban

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Oliver Milman
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Antonio Guterres says world faces climate crunch time' and announces dire new scientific warnings of global heating

Fossil-fuel companies are the godfathers of climate chaos" and should be banned in every country from advertising akin to restrictions on big tobacco, the secretary general of the United Nations has said while delivering dire new scientific warnings of global heating.

In a major speech in New York on Wednesday, Antonio Guterres called on news and tech media to stop enabling planetary destruction" by taking fossil-fuel advertising money while warning the world faces climate crunch time" in its faltering attempts to stem the crisis.

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