"Just as they did for the tobacco industry decades before, lobbyists and spin doctors have spewed harmful misinformation," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.During his wide-ranging plea for fundamental change delivered Tuesday at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres denounced public relations and advertising firms for enabling the fossil fuel pollution currently destroying the planet.
"Fossil fuel interests need to spend less time averting a PR disaster—and more time averting a planetary one."Guterres."We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account." "That includes the banks, private equity, asset managers, and other financial institutions that continue to invest and underwrite carbon pollution," he continued."And it includes the massive public relations machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny."
"Just as they did for the tobacco industry decades before, lobbyists and spin doctors have spewed harmful misinformation," Guterres added, echoing the