The world’s fossil fuel industries should be banned from advertising to help save the world from climate change.
That is according UN Secretary General António Guterres who called coal, oil and gas corporations the “godfathers of climate chaos”.
How tobacco advertising was banned because of the threat to health, the same should now apply to fossil fuels, he said in a speech on Wednesday.
His comments came as new studies showed the rate of warming is increasing and that global heat records continue to be broken.
Last year was the hottest on record and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday that the record could fall again as soon as this year.
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