The World Wildlife Fund's chief warned on Tuesday that 'short-term decisions' to tackle an international energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine could undermine efforts to fight longer-term climate change.
The director general of the World Wildlife Fund, Marco Lambertini, gives an interview to Reuters at the United Nations Ocean Conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro NunesLISBON, June 28 - The World Wildlife Fund's chief warned on Tuesday that "short-term decisions" to tackle an international energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine could undermine efforts to fight longer-term climate change.
This has raised concern that climate issues could be swept under the carpet, with catastrophic longer-term implications for the global climate, WWF director general Marco Lambertini told Reuters on the sidelines of the U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon."We need to be absolutely sure that by taking a short-term decision, we don't lock into an unsustainable future.
Food shortages were already a pressing issue before Russia's invasion, he said, and financial pressures on groups in vulnerable, poorer nations could also open the door to overfishing. "That's a trend that needs to be countered because at the end of the day it will simply make things worse," Lambertini said. "Science has never been clearer: we have 10 years to fix the climate."
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