Open letter: Nobel Laureates call for me • Table.Briefings

Muhammad Yunus at his inauguration as interim Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner has also signed the open letter.

In an open letter, former heads of state and Nobel Prize winners have called on the United Nations to include fossil fuels in an important UN climate treaty. They have been omitted from the current draft, which has caused great outrage.

About 80 Nobel laureates and former heads of state have criticized in an open letter that fossil fuels are no longer mentioned in a draft of the UN negotiating text for the Summit of the Future. An earlier version of the paper had still referred to an „acceleration“ of the „transition away from fossil fuels.“ On Tuesday, they called for this wording to be reinstated in the Pact for the Future.

Open letter: Nobel Laureates call for mention of fossil fuels in UN treaty

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