“This is our moment of opportunity to supercharge the clean
energy age,” declared United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres in a major climate address delivered today, calling on
world leaders to act decisively to accelerate the global shift away
from fossil fuels, Azernews reports.
Speaking under the title “A Moment of Opportunity,” Guterres
outlined the stakes and the solutions in what he described as a
pivotal era for humanity. “Energy has shaped humanity’s path—from
fire to steam, to the atom. Now, the sun is rising on a clean
energy age,” he said.
In a year that saw nearly all new power capacity generated from
renewables, global investment in clean energy soared to $2
trillion—outpacing fossil fuel investment by $800 billion. Solar
and wind have become the cheapest power sources on Earth,…
