Essay by Eric Worrall
“… To succeed in a fast-changing world, we must enhance the force-multipliers. …”
UN Climate Chief at NY Climate Week: Defining the New Era of Climate Action; Getting Behind Paris and Stepping it up at COP30 and Beyond
22 September 2025
Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at New York Climate Week on 22 September 2025, during a flagship event hosted by Mission 2025, focused on the rise of the new economy, and launching the new Inside COP30 podcast series, by Outrage & Optimism.
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This new era of climate action must be about bringing our process closer to the real economy: accelerating implementation and spreading the colossal benefits of climate action to billions more people.
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To succeed in a fast-changing world, we must enhance the force-multipliers.
Take industrial transformation: the clean industry underpins stronger economies, more resilient supply chains, lower costs and lower emissions.
Yet 1.6 trillion dollars worth of projects remain idle.
That is wasted potential.
In the next five years we can unleash huge progress – powered by innovators and entrepreneurs, enabled by Paris-aligned governments, creating millions of good jobs.
That is why I fully support Build Clean Now – a global initiative to fast-track clean industry shifts, led by the Industrial Transition Accelerator, being launched later this afternoon.
The same principle applies to AI.
AI is not a ready-made solution, and it carries risks. But it can also be a game-changer. So we now need to blunt its dangerous edges, sharpen its catalytic ones, and put it astutely to work.
I echo the Secretary-General: if you run a major AI platform, power it with renewables, and innovate to drive energy efficiency.
Jobs and livelihoods must be protected. Done properly, AI releases human capacity, not replaces it. That is our approach within the Secretariat, as we explore how AI can improve our own work.
Most important it is powered to drive real-world outcomes: managing microgrids, mapping climate risk, guiding resilience planning. And this is just the beginning.
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Read more: https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-chief-at-ny-climate-week-defining-the-new-era-of-climate-action-getting-behind-paris-and
This is word salad.
“… This new era of climate action must be about bringing our process closer to the real economy …. To succeed in a fast-changing world, we must enhance the force-multipliers. …”. Yep, that explains it all.
Jobs and livelihoods will not be protected in the age of AI, any more than intensive manual jobs were protected during the industrial revolution. Many jobs will disappear forever, but others will take their place, for people who are nimble enough to keep up.
Neither will carbon emissions be restrained. In the rush to win the AI race, humanity’s carbon footprint is about to soar. Nobody will hesitate to pump more CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, while they believe the very future of their businesses and nations hinge on having more AI capacity than their rivals.
But the one thing which won’t happen is widespread adoption of renewables to power AI. Across the world tech companies are commissioning new gas or coal plants, or restarting nuclear plants, to deliver the gargantuan energy required for their new toys. There are a few “clean energy AI” projects, such as a hydro powered project which Open AI is building in Norway, but they will continue to be in the minority. There just isn’t anywhere near enough reliable zero carbon energy to power what is coming.
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Delusional. I thought they were nuts before, but not this much. Why not wish for space aliens to rescue us while he’s at it?
Truely a good one, the alien rescue…thanks it made my day 😅
They already had the contrary idea 14 years ago..
Some of these nutjobs came up with the claim that if Aliens land on earth they’d ldestroy humanity, because of the things we did to climate.
The logic behind this is quite interesting.
Assuming that a race,so smart that they can violate the knowledge of all our known physical laws and produce almost endless levels of energy to travel with the speed of light without being pulverized
are as stupid as a pink haired activist to believe that 0.01% of co2 will do something it wasn’t able to do in hundreds of millions of years.
These Aliens will probably die from laughing when they realise how many human experts believe this nonsense
and will start to wonder why out of all people atheists with a degree came up with more sudden world end scenarios(extinctionclock.org ) in a few decades than all religious zealots combined in thousands of years.
Instead of aliens, out of control AI will destroy us all instead.
“Captain, sensors detect no intelligent life on this planet.”
If Darwinian evolution is a universal, or at least galactic-wide, phenomenon then it is much more likely that a species that can traverse inter-stellar distances will be more
“How to serve man”
than
“Let’s create a competitor species for resources only available on planets with oxygen-nitrogen atmospheres and liquid water”.
Space aliens will probably do what many invasive species do –
exactly not what or why we were expecting them to do.
Probably rape all the cows and eat all the women?
Bull….
… as in eat all the cows and bulls. 🙂
I’m pretty sure they are vegan.
The cowrape won’t happen.
Klaatu Borada Nicto.
I have it on good, written authority that the Vogon Constructor fleet is on a course that won’t rescue Earth, but instead will essentially destroy it for the higher purpose of building a future “bypass”.
+42
Another case of never heard of: “you can’t have it both ways”…
I see there are certain groups now waving identifying flags marching in the streets in support of the preferences, rights, choices and benefits of “having it both ways”.
Many attendants also demand banning the complete worldwide production, supply and use of petroleum products.
(Vaseline excepted, of course.)
Artificial Intelligence…
.. is the only sort of intelligence Stiell is ever likely to have.
“colossal benefits of climate action”
Wow.. talk about delusional !!
Firstly, “climate action” has zero effect on the climate.. it is just mantra-based virtue-seeking
Secondly.. these action are the absolute opposite of benefits.. just costs and societal degradation.
“Wow.. talk about delusional !! ”
That was my thought, too.
That guy is not living in the real world.
He’s going to be very disappointed when he realizes the world has moved on, and that other than a few equally delusional holdouts, most nations are not trying to reduce CO2 emissions.
The UN is doubling down on stupid. I’m not surprised.
Big computer systems require solid, reliable, and stable electricity.
These are things that wind and solar can NEVER provide.
The Magic Eight Ball requires no power, those reading it in the dark doesn’t work so well. Anyway, it says to Simon, “Try again later.”
” powered by innovators and entrepreneurs,”
A grand idea. They can also finance their good ideas and not use other people’s money (OPM).
Simon Stiell isn’t expecting me to help fund his delusional** ideas – is he?
**the colossal benefits of climate action
That’s the problem. Spending OPM is so fun and easy.
Lingo bingo
Translation – We can have our cake and eat it.
CV watch: unusually among the people in his kind of role, Simon Stiell does not have a degree in literature or politics or classics. He has a vocational qualification in electronics and communications engineering. A modest education but I respect it.
He seems to have propelled himself very far up the hierarchy on the strength of it.
But when you get to a certain point on the greasy pole – or greasers pole perhaps – then your brain is wiped so you conform to the required idiocy of those above.
Compulsive Climate Liars like Stiell belong to the school of thought that says “when you’re in a hole, dig faster and deeper”.
Talk about DELUSIONAL. 😄😆😅🤣😂
So-called “clean industry” does not exist, and causes a massive destruction of economies. Only those who manufacture all of the worse-than-useless crap needed to produce allegedly “clean” energy (using, of course, COAL, OIL AND GAS in virtually every increment of said production) are seeing any economic “benefit” from the mirage of “clean” energy/industry.
So-called “clean industry” does not exist, and causes a massive destruction of economies AND ENVIRONMENTS.
A great piece showing just who this failed politician from a country with a population of only 115,000 is.
Simon Stiell: the one-man climate disaster lectures Australia
A truly brain-washed , ignorant, hypocritical and delusional muppet !!
I really like this line…
“Mr Stiell’s mission is not to curb emissions, but to perpetuate the climate bureaucracy.”
What fantasy world do these people live in?
“the clean industry underpins stronger economies”
No, it’s weakening once strong economies
“more resilient supply chains”
How do you figure? The more fickle and intermittent the energy source (wind and solar) the less resilient is the supply chain.
“lower costs”
Not when you include the reliable power sources and extremely expensive batteries that have to be built to back up the unreliable power from wind and solar.
“and lower emission”
One out of four is true. Congratulations, you’re not a complete liar. There are far better ways to reduce emissions and have reliable power. Nuclear for example. Wind and solar only make sense as supplemental power and only where the already is robust, reliable, scalable power, usually natural gas or coal.
Defund the UN. It has morphed into a bureaucratic monster making social and economic decisions that have nothing to do with its’ charter. It’s already acting like the One World Government it openly hopes to become.
From the above article:
“Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell . . .”
I believe it’s always wise to examine the qualifications of persons preaching actions to others . . . especially when they choose to employ fancy-sounding-but-really-meaningless phrases such as “force multipliers”, “spreading the colossal benefits of climate action to billions more people”, and “wasted potential”, as has Mr. Stiell.
Here is what the United Nations itself summarizes as the CV for Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taken from https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/simon-stiell ), with my bold emphasis added:
“Mr. Stiell, a true champion for formulating creative approaches for our collective global response to the climate crisis, brings to the position a unique skillset developed over a thirty-three year career, coupled with vast experience in bilateral, regional and multilateral affairs.
“Mr. Stiell served as senior minister in the Government of Grenada from 2013 through June 2022, holding the portfolio of Minister for Climate Resilience and the Environment for five years. He previously served as Minister for Education and Human Resource Development, Minister of State with responsibility for human resource development and the environment and as a Parliamentary Secretary within the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry and Fisheries. He also served as a member of Grenada’s Upper House of Parliament, the Senate, where he served as Leader of Government Business.
“Prior to joining government, Mr. Stiell’s career spanned some fourteen years within the technology sector, holding senior executive positions in a number of industry leading companies, from Silicon Valley based technology start-ups to major corporations, including Nokia and GEC Plessey Telecommunications.
“Mr. Stiell originally trained as an engineer at London Metropolitan University and College of North West London, and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom.”
So, in summary Stiell is a career administrator and bureaucrat, with an advanced university degree of MBA , and no evidence whatsoever in having any practical experience in any scientific field even remotely related to Earth’s climate.
Consequently, I take no comfort in—in fact have great worry that— Mr Stiell has stated “I fully support Build Clean Now – a global initiative to fast-track clean industry shifts, led by the Industrial Transition Accelerator, being launched later this afternoon.” What a mash-up of bureaucrat-speak! The “industrial Transition Accelerator”? . . . WTF!
Finally, as to his statement (again, given in the above article) that “In the next five years we can unleash huge progress – powered by innovators and entrepreneurs, enabled by Paris-aligned governments . . .”, why am I not at all surprised that Mr. Steill refuses to accept the obvious fact that the Paris Agreement (adopted in 2015) is now in shambles and basically ignored by all first-world nations.
Good grief!
As usual government is the last to catch on and international government will be the last of the last. Nothing new here.