Stop burning fossil fuel, warns Tutu

Nobel prizewinner Desmond Tutu, the emeritus Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has said the world must stop burning fossil fuels “as a matter of urgency”, writes Ellen Teague. “We have to hear the scientists and the rural people across the world who are already experiencing dramatic climate change,” Archbishop Tutu said in a sermon through video link at a service in Copenhagen’s Lutheran Cathedral on 28 October. The event marked the release of the final instalment of the UN’s climate science report. Archbishop Tutu put forward a four-point plan to the assembled scientists, dignitaries and politicians, involving freezing fossil-fuel exploration, making polluters pay, rejecting fossil fuel funding and divesting from the industry.
(See Chris Bain, page 18.)