{"id":654400,"date":"2026-06-23T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654400\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:54:07","slug":"london-is-cooking-un-chief-warns-as-he-urges-countries-to-cut-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654400\/","title":{"rendered":"London is \u2018cooking\u2019, UN chief warns as he urges countries to cut fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">London is \u201ccooking\u201d, the United Nations chief has warned, as he argued that countries cannot double down on fossil fuels in the face of devastating climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">UN secretary general Antonio Guterres referenced Charles Dickens\u2019 novel A Tale Of Two Cities in a major address at London Climate Action Week as the capital swelters in a severe heatwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Speaking at the event on Tuesday, Mr Guterres said: \u201cCrisis brings clarity and here in London \u2013 the city of Dickens \u2013 it is clear that our world is facing a \u2018tale of two crises\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cA climate crisis is pushing us deeper towards higher temperatures and closer to catastrophic tipping points and an energy crisis exposing the folly of a world hooked on hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cOn the surface, these crises may seem separate, but they share the same destructive origin: fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"vHlb- _9dRkf\" data-testid=\"tile-heading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/london\/2026-06-23\/fire-brigade-take-hundreds-of-calls-as-thunderstorms-strike-capital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storms cause floods and travel disruption across London as heatwave builds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">His address coincides with an unprecedented heatwave hitting the UK this week, which has sparked fears over the impact of extreme heat on health, schools, workplaces and transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Temperatures are expected to smash the June record set in 1976 by several degrees as human-driven climate change intensifies the impact of a \u201cheat-dome\u201d settling over western Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cLondon isn\u2019t just calling. It\u2019s cooking,\u201d the UN chief said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">He warned that climate chaos is \u201caccelerating before our eyes\u201d while the arrival of the El Nino warming weather phenomenon this summer risks \u201cblowing the house down\u201d as it compounds the escalating impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Subscribe free to <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" data-testid=\"fecp-link-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our weekly newsletter<\/a> for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Want a quick and expert briefing on the biggest news stories? Listen to our latest podcasts to find out What You Need To Know&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London is \u201ccooking\u201d, the United Nations chief has warned, as he argued that countries cannot double down on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}