Turning back to fossil fuels due to the global energy shock caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would be “madness” and risk “mutually assured destruction”, the United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned in a speech to an energy and climate summit.
“If we want to stop global warming, we need to go to the source – the G20,” said Mr Guterres in a speech to a climate summit in London hosted by“The developed and emerging economies of the G20 account for 80 per cent of all global emissions. “As major economies pursue an ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy to replace Russian fossil fuels, short-term measures might create long-term fossil fuel dependence and close the window to 1.5 degrees,” Mr Guterres said.“Countries could become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use.
Last week an analysis by scientists at Climate Resource and commissioned by WWF found that Australia was on track to emit twice as much greenhouse gas as it should if the nation was to do its fair share of keeping the world to 1.5 degrees. “It could have just been a freak weather event. That happens. But if this starts happening regularly it would be seriously terrifying,” said Dr Will Hobbs, a scientist with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership at the University of Tasmania.
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