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The latest state of the Climate Report from the World Meteorological Organisation is a depressing litany of humanity’s failure to address climate disruption.

Sherwin Bryce-Pease This statement was made by Antonio Guterres at the launch of the 2021 report, which points to new records in greenhouse gas concentrations, sea-level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification.

The images of extreme rainfall in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal province that claimed more than 430 lives causing billions of Rands in damage – are still fresh. And while no one event can definitively be blamed on climate change, the mounting evidence globally is pointing in one direction. He called for Five Critical Actions – starting with renewable energy technologies that must be treated as essential global public goods calling for a global coalition on battery storage to fast track innovation and deployment; To secure, scale-up and diversify the supply of critical components and raw materials for renewable energy technologies; For Governments to build frameworks and reform bureaucracies to a level playing field for renewables; he urged Governments to shift subsidies away from...

Guterres says coal, oil and gas receive roughly 11 million dollars in subsidies every minute of every day highlighting how governments around the world pour half a trillion dollars annually into artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels – more than triple what renewables receive.

 

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