[snip] Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is "no science" indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed... "unless you want to take the world back into caves". The comments were "incredibly concerning" and "verging on climate denial", scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres... Al Jaber is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’s state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest. [/snip]
If conflict of interest is a problem, why was Guterres installed as the UNSG in the first place?