UN Secretary General: Some governments & business leaders say one thing but do another. Simply put they're lying.
(Brisbane Times, Brisbane, 11 April 2022) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, with its direct language and whole chapter on finance, should be a wake-up call to those in the business community who are avoiding taking genuine action on climate change. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres didn’t mince his words when he introduced the report to the world, bluntly stating that investing in “new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness.” The report calls out commercial banks and export credit agencies for the role they are still playing in financing fossil fuel investments. He notes that "Some government and business leaders are saying one thing – but doing another. Simply put, they are lying."