UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called for a rapid transition to renewable energy at the start of a ten-day climate conference in Bonn.
Stiell said on Monday that "war in the Middle East causes immense human suffering and sparks a fossil fuel cost crisis that’s strangling economies everywhere."
"It’s crystal clear. Continuing our fossil fuel dependency means continuing to import inflation and economic instability," the head of the UN's Climate Secretariat said.
The international community must make more progress on climate policy, Stiell urged. "We must go further, faster: delivering fully on our Paris obligations and on plans made under the Agreement."
Tackling the global climate crisis is the most difficult, but also the most important task humanity has ever undertaken together, he said.
Some 6,500 delegates from governments, the scientific community, business and civil society representing almost all UN member states are attending the ten-day Bonn Climate Conference.
Its main task is to prepare for the next UN Climate Change Conference, which is taking place this year in Antalya, Turkey.
The German government says the Bonn conference is the largest regular UN conference held in Germany.
