{"id":511990,"date":"2022-08-05T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=511990"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T04:08:10","slug":"amid-soaring-energy-prices-un-sec-gen-urges-transition-to-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-soaring-energy-prices-un-sec-gen-urges-transition-to-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid soaring energy prices, UN Sec-Gen urges transition to renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Ukraine continues to rage, skyrocketing energy prices are compounding an existential cost-of-living crisis for hundreds of millions of people, warned the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG) on Food, Energy and Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this alarming situation, major oil and gas companies recently reported record profits, which Secretary-General AntAnio Guterres, who launched the brief on Wednesday, called &#8220;immoral&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion. I urge governments to tax these excessive profits, and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Ukraine continues to rage, skyrocketing energy prices are compounding an existential cost-of-living crisis for hundreds of millions of people, warned the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG) on Food, Energy and Finance. Despite this alarming situation, major oil and gas companies recently reported record profits, which Secretary-General AntAnio Guterres, who launched the brief on Wednesday, called &#8220;immoral&#8221;. &#8220;The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion. I urge governments to tax these excessive profits, and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511990","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=511990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}