'Fossil fuel producers and their enablers are still racing to expand production, knowing full well that their business model is inconsistent with human survival,' said United Nations Secretary-General antonioguterres.
"We are flirting with climate disaster," Guterres said Wednesday."Every week brings a new climate horror story. Greenhouse gas emissions are at record levels and growing. The commitment to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is nearly going up in smoke. Without further action, we are headed to a 2.8-degree increase and the consequences, as we all know, would be devastating. Several parts of our planet will be uninhabitable.
"The science has been clear for decades," Guterres said at the World Economic Forum, an event attended by the top executives of major oil and gas firms including Chevron and BP."I am not talking only about U.N. scientists. I am talking even about fossil fuel scientists.
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