Covid-19 and Climate Change: Tough Times Ahead Warns UN Secretary

“The secretary-general of the U.N. has no power,” Guterres said. “We can have influence. I can persuade. Many developing countries have very few resources, high debts that are growing and they pay much higher interest rates than in Europe or North America, have no vaccines, and disproportionately “suffer the impacts of climate change,” Guterres said. “We need a deep reform in our international financial system in order to make sure that there is more justice in the way resources are available to allow for the recovery (from Covid-19) to be possible everywhere,” he said.