United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres slammed fossil fuel companies, singling out ExxonMobil, in a grim table-setting speech at the World Economic Forum.
, which showed that Exxon's own climate research accurately predicted the pace and severity of global warming.
Despite that information, the study found, the company chose to publicly cast doubt on climate science findings, including UN-sponsored research, for decades."The science has been clear for decades. I’m not talking only about UN scientists, I’m talking even about fossil fuel scientists," Guterres said.
“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet. And just like the tobacco industry, they rode roughshod over their own science."Guterres' speech comes at a fraught time of simmering conflicts and a deadly pandemic. Powerful divides are getting harder to bridge, Guterres warned, and tackling climate change is caught up in this maelstrom.Guterres implored political and business leaders to speed the transition away from fossil fuels and reject plans to expand fossil fuel production.
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