{"id":15043,"date":"2026-06-23T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:33:58","slug":"un-chief-urges-ai-firms-to-come-clean-over-environmental-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=15043","title":{"rendered":"UN chief urges AI firms to &#8216;come clean&#8217; over environmental footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for faster action on global warming, challenging AI firms to \u201ccome clean\u201d about their environmental footprint and warning that fossil fuels were driving climate and energy crises.<\/p>\n<p>As Europe bakes under a second heatwave in as many months, Guterres delivered a speech in London that painted a stark picture of a planet that has just endured its 11 hottest years on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate chaos is accelerating before our eyes,\u201d Guterres said, while the energy crisis, fuelled by war in the Middle East, is \u201cexposing the folly of a world hooked on hydrocarbons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that our world is facing a Tale of Two Crises,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the surface, these crises may seem separate. But they share the same destructive origin: Fossil fuels,\u201d he said at London Climate Action Week, an annual gathering of policymakers, company executives and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres announced new initiatives to combat methane emissions and address concerns over the environmental footprint of energy-hungry data centres.<\/p>\n<p>The growing energy and water use of data centres \u2014 vast server warehouses powering AI and other digital services \u2014 is putting pressure on local communities and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>A UN study earlier this month found that the facilities consumed more electricity than all but 10 countries in 2025. By 2030, they could use more power than all but five countries, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres launched an AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, urging every major artificial intelligence company to measure and publicly disclose their environmental impact as well as commit to powering every data centre with renewable energy by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to come clean,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cIf AI is to help build a better future, it must be honest about what it costs us now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guterres warned that the world was \u201cdangerously\u201d off track in efforts to reach the global goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050, saying there was a \u201cclean way out\u201d by accelerating the transition to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Countries agreed to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels under the 2015 Paris Agreement, but scientists now say that threshold could be breached by about 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must act with far greater urgency to strictly limit the magnitude and duration of any overshoot beyond 1.5C,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>Rising temperatures are pushing the world closer to \u201ccatastrophic tipping points\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Scientific Advisory Board released a report outlining the dangers of crossing irreversible tipping points, from ice melt that would further raise sea levels to the collapse of coral reefs and Amazon decline.<\/p>\n<p>The UN chief\u2019s warning came as Europe\u2019s latest heatwave brought record temperatures in France and seared other European countries this week.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres called for a rapid cut in CO2 emissions from oil, gas and coal \u2014 the main driver of long-term warming, which remains in the atmosphere for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for renewed efforts to reduce methane emissions, which account for one-third of warming and are about 80 times more potent than CO2 but break down in the atmosphere in a decade or two.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said the agriculture and waste sectors must take steps to curb their methane output but he put a \u201cspecial focus\u201d on the fossil fuel industry to \u201cdo what is long overdue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70 percent of oil and gas methane emissions can be eliminated with existing technology, but some 167 billion cubic metres of gas were flared in 2025 alone, as much as Africa consumes in a year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on governments to set a \u201cnew global standard\u201d for the oil and gas sector that would lead to \u201cnear-zero\u201d methane emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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