The head of the United Nations has a clear message for countries and companies dragging their feet on climate change: “Get on board, or get left behind.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday said institutions that “fail to bet on the green economy will be living in a gray future,” while those that embrace clean energy technologies will “set the gold standard for economic leadership in the 21st century.”
Guterres didn’t explicitly throw shade at the United States, but he may has well have.
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