{"id":5670,"date":"2022-10-04T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/interview-new-un-climate-chief-takes-the-fight-personally"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:14","slug":"interview-new-un-climate-chief-takes-the-fight-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/interview-new-un-climate-chief-takes-the-fight-personally\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: New UN climate chief takes the fight personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7Nk78o0ERPBNsq1a7peWniLjE2kR9HQr2e3FdVYT_1664875898.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For the United Nations\u2019 new climate chief, the fight is personal.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>As a former engineer who says he knows \u201chow to make things work and get things done,\u201d it wasn\u2019t just what Simon Stiell did before he became a top U.N. official, it was where.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cIt\u2019s a huge job, and it\u2019s good to see someone from a climate vulnerable country taking the helm. As someone from Grenada, he doesn\u2019t need reminding what is at stake,\u201d said Mohamed Adow of think tank Power Shift Africa. \u201cFor too long the perspectives of the global north have held sway at the climate talks and led to foot dragging and inaction. We\u2019re starting to see this change, but it really needs to be accelerated.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the United Nations\u2019 new climate chief, the fight is personal. As a former engineer who says he knows \u201chow to make things work and get things done,\u201d it wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}