Do not work for ‘climate wreckers’, UN head tells graduates

Antonio Guterres says young people should tackle climate crisis by using talent to deliver a renewable future

The UN secretary general has told new university graduates not to take up careers with the climate wreckers" - companies that drive the extraction of fossil fuels.

Antonio Guterres addressed thousands of graduates at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, US, on Tuesday. You must be the generation that succeeds in addressing the planetary emergency of climate change," he said. Despite mountains of evidence of looming climate catastrophe, we still see mountains of funding for coal and fossil fuels that are killing our planet.