UN chief General António Guterres will use a speech marking the 50th Earth Day on Wednesday to confront President Trump and directly link coronavirus with climate change
NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will use a speech marking the 50th Earth Day on Wednesday to confront President Donald Trump and directly link coronavirus with climate change.
The stark language of Guterres’ prepared remarks, obtained by POLITICO, marks a new willingness by the U.N. chief to challenge the Trump administration, which recently , the U.N. health agency, and formally withdrew from the U.N.'s landmark 2015 Paris climate change agreement last year.Guterres will push for an end to fossil fuel subsidies at a time when both oil companies and households are struggling to pay their bills. Trump committed TuesdayU.S. is the world’s second-biggest fossil fuel subsidizer
, according to a 2019 International Monetary Fund report. Guterres is expected to say: “Fossil fuel subsidies must end, and polluters must start paying for their pollution.” With many health systems and medical supply chains at breaking point, Guterres will say that while “the impact of the coronavirus is both immediate and dreadful,” there’s an “even deeper emergency — the planet’s unfolding environmental crisis.”
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