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Simon Stiell
Activist
Simon Stiell is the United Nations climate change chief.
Notable Quotes
"Europe's savage heatwave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it."View Story →
""The evidence is irrefutable: this is the spiralling price of humanity's fossil fuel addiction, and the global climate crisis it is fuelling.""View Story →
"Those who’ve fought to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels are inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom."View Story →
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