{"id":32320,"date":"2025-07-22T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32320"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:27:45","slug":"u-s-is-missing-the-centurys-greatest-economic-opportunity-u-n-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32320","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Is Missing the Century\u2019s \u2018Greatest Economic Opportunity,\u2019 U.N. Chief Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a speech on renewable energy, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres cited \u201cclear market distortion\u201d in favor of fossil fuels by President Trump and others but called the transition to cleaner energy economically inevitable.<\/p>\n

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The United Nations secretary general\u2019s speech on Tuesday was billed as a rare, optimistic one on the future of climate change.<\/p>\n

Look at the cold, hard economic data, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the U.N. chief, said, and you will see that the world\u2019s transition from polluting fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy is \u201cunstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then there was the matter of the world\u2019s largest economy, the United States.<\/p>\n

President Trump pulled the United States out of the main international agreement to limit climate change and has, with Congress, sought to cripple domestic wind and solar power industries, the growth of electric vehicles and climate science research.<\/p>\n

The United States and those that follow its lead are \u201cmissing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century,\u201d said Mr. Guterres. Their policies have imperiled global progress through the \u201cclear market distortion\u201d of subsidizing fossil fuels at a nine-to-one ratio against renewables.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet even against those odds, Mr. Guterres said, he was \u201cnever more confident that they will fail, because we have passed the point of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is debatable. A country\u2019s energy choices are subject to change amid the shifting winds of technological innovation and geopolitics. But Mr. Guterres said he saw economics as destiny. \u201cJust follow the money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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In a speech on renewable energy, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres cited \u201cclear market distortion\u201d in favor of fossil fuels by President Trump and others but called the transition to cleaner energy economically inevitable.The United Nations secretary general\u2019s speech on Tuesday was billed as a rare, optimistic one on the future of climate change.Look at the cold, hard economic data, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the U.N. chief, said, and you will see that the world\u2019s transition from polluting fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy is \u201cunstoppable.\u201dBut then there was the matter of the world\u2019s largest economy, the United States.President Trump pulled the United States out of the main international agreement to limit climate change and has, with Congress, sought to cripple domestic wind and solar power industries, the growth of electric vehicles and climate science research.The United States and those that follow its lead are \u201cmissing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century,\u201d said Mr. Guterres. Their policies have imperiled global progress through the \u201cclear market distortion\u201d of subsidizing fossil fuels at a nine-to-one ratio against renewables.And yet even against those odds, Mr. Guterres said, he was \u201cnever more confident that they will fail, because we have passed the point of no return.\u201dThat is debatable. A country\u2019s energy choices are subject to change amid the shifting winds of technological innovation and geopolitics. But Mr. Guterres said he saw economics as destiny. \u201cJust follow the money,\u201d he said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32322,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32323,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320\/revisions\/32323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}