Countries, coal industry urged to transition to clean energy.

Countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are urged to completely phase out coal by 2030 and others by 2040 as part of global efforts to transition to renewable energy, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. There are some 38 countries in the group with a majority ranked as very high-income economies.

Guterres said the climate agenda is being undermined and countries are backtracking on implementing programs to keep the planet’s temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Instead, current policies are taking the world to a 2.8-degree temperature rise by the end of the century, he said.

“That spells catastrophe,” he said .

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Countries, coal industry urged to transition to clean energy to prevent climate catastrophe