UN urges world leaders to tax fossil fuel industry profits

António Guterres, the organization’s secretary-general, had raised the idea in recent months, but has now defended it in front of heads of state and government from around the world. introduction speech of the United Nations General Assembly. Guterres said, “Our world is dependent on fossil fuels. It is time to intervene.” Guterres emphasized that companies in this sector must and must be held accountable. It’s time to stop the PR and political pressure machines that are defending them.

The Portuguese diplomat has made it clear that it is not possible to finish these energy sources from one day to the next, but has called for a “just transition” that pays for the big polluters. “Today I urge all advanced economies to tax the unexpected profits of fossil fuel companies,” he said. For Guterres, climate change is the defining problem of this age and should be “the number one priority of all governments and multilateral organizations”.

In this sense, he condemned the continuing rise in greenhouse gas emissions and warned that the world is heading towards a “climate disaster” whose effects are already evident, such as this year’s severe droughts or the recent devastating floods. Pakistan. “No area is safe and we haven’t seen anything yet”. The hottest days of summer today may be the coolest tomorrow.”

The insistence on the dangers of climate change was also emphasized by Hungarian Csaba Körösi, President of the General Assembly, who took the floor right after the Heads of State of different countries began to intervene.

“Ugly tactics like those used by tobacco companies decades ago”

On other occasions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was not shy about being too critical of hydrocarbon companies. That same summer, in June, he harshly criticized major economies for the risk posed by the spread of fossil fuels. “You are the largest economies and also world’s largest emitters. Its first duty is to protect people. And nothing could be clearer than this danger of expansion of fossil fuels“Fossil fuels, even in the short term, are the only way to go,” Guterres said at the Great Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. they don’t make any political or economic sense‘ he pointed.

The United Nations spokesman has openly reprimanded world leaders and harshly criticized the pressure exerted by the gas, oil and coal industries on governments and economies. “Seems like, fossil fuel producers Guterres said, “There is humanity from the neck, and in this sense, the president is putting this pressure on” same ugly tactics that large tobacco used decades agoIt’s the same with the tobacco industry, the fossil fuel lobby, and their financial accomplices. should not shy away from responsibility‘ he denounced.

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