{"id":417511,"date":"2021-05-29T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417511"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:00:20","slug":"un-chief-wants-countries-to-stop-investing-in-coal-seeks-climate-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/un-chief-wants-countries-to-stop-investing-in-coal-seeks-climate-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief wants countries to stop investing in coal, seeks climate pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging more countries to stop investing in coal, while pushing for developed countries to take concrete climate action. <\/p>\n<p>For net-zero pledges to be backed by credible targets and timelines, subsidies have to be shifted from fossil fuels to renewables, and \u201cit also means stopping the financing of coal domestically and abroad and phasing out its use,\u201d Guterres said in a video message at the International Finance Forum in Beijing on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Citing South Korea\u2019s recent decision to halt state-backed financing of coal-fired power plants overseas, the UN chief said he\u2019s counting on \u201cG7 climate ministers and other leaders to make similar commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging more countries to stop investing in coal, while pushing for developed countries to take concrete climate action. For net-zero pledges to be backed by credible targets and timelines, subsidies have to be shifted from fossil fuels to renewables, and \u201cit also means stopping the financing of coal domestically and abroad and phasing out its use,\u201d Guterres said in a video message at the International Finance Forum in Beijing on Saturday. Citing South Korea\u2019s recent decision to halt state-backed financing of coal-fired power plants overseas, the UN chief said he\u2019s counting on \u201cG7 climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}