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Guterres Demands Fossil Firms Pay

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António Guterres, the outgoing U.N. secretary-general, condemned polluters at the United Nations and said fossil fuel firms must pay for climate damage as he prepared to step down in December.

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António Guterres, UN secretary general, has criticised “immoral” fossil fuel companies for their “grotesque greed”, warned that we have “opened the gates of hell” and hailed the new “clean energy age”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful
Before his final general assembly, António Guterres speaks about why he put climate at the centre of his UN tenure
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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