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Angela Symons

‘Subsidising suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels

"Subsidising fossil fuels is subsidising suicide," UN chief Antonio Guterres told leaders today (16 October) ahead of next week's UN biodiversity summit, COP17.

At an event in Yerevan, Armenia, Guterres said governments were still "spending money on the wrong things" and singled out incentives for fossil fuels.

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