Editorial: UN climate wonk Figueres figures coal miners ought to do something else

摘要

Get lost. Or if you won't get lost, get over coal, at least. In a nutshell, that's the message Christiana Figueres, executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, bluntly delivered this week to the World Coal Association International Coal & Climate Summit in Warsaw, Poland. To the extent the UN official made a token effort to offer a lifeline, it came in the form of advice to seek the sun or the wind or perhaps a forest somewhere - learn to forget the mining industry.