Simon Stiell
Simon Stiell said vulnerable communities are paying the price for global heating. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
Simon Stiell said vulnerable communities are paying the price for global heating. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate negotiator tells Cop31

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification

A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s chief climate negotiator, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey.