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Guterres calls on G20 to dismantle coal infra

New Delhi: Stating that the global well-being is in jeopardy, in large part, because humans have not kept our promises on the environment, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the G20 governments to dismantle coal infrastructure and also gave full phase out year deadlines.

"I call on the G20 governments to dismantle coal infrastructure with a full phase-out by 2030 for OECD countries and 2040 for all others. And I call on all financial actors to abandon fossil fuel finance and invest in renewable energy," Guterres said in his remarks at the opening of the landmark international meeting Stockholm+50 being held to commemorate the first human environment conference in 1972 held in Stockholm itself.

Guterres also said that renewable energy technologies should be seen as a global public good and that the necessary raw materials should be available to all.