A safe climate depends on replacing coal, oil, and gas with clean energy sources. During a speech in New York City this week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for an end to fossil fuel advertising advertising.
Guterres’ animated comments came soon after upsetting new climate data was released: countries will have no more than 5 years to realign their polluting emissions to keep global temperatures from rising even more dramatically, according to more data released yesterday by the“The target of limiting long-term global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is hanging by a thread,” the United Nations secretary general said in the speech at the American Museum of Natural History.
“I call on these companies to stop acting as enablers to planetary destruction. Many governments restrict or prohibit advertising for products that harm human health, like tobacco. I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies. And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil-fuel advertising.”