UN News: Guterres urges time-bound national plans to move beyond fossil fuels
According to UN News, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on countries on 23 September 2026 to prepare credible plans with explicit deadlines for moving away from fossil fuels. According to UN News, his worldwide appeal linked the availability of tools for that transition with the urgency of preventing catastrophic climate outcomes; the supplied excerpt does not identify a location.
Global policy context
Economic & investment implications
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Key findings
- According to UN News, Guterres urged countries to develop credible fossil-fuel transition plans.
- According to UN News, those plans should include explicit timelines.
- According to UN News, Guterres presented the transition as urgent for avoiding climate catastrophe.
In their words
“We are the first generation with the tools to end the fossil fuel age – and the last who can avert climate catastrophe”— UN Secretary-General António Guterres, according to UN News
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