In what is being seen as an indication that the United Nations may be about to set aside its posture of diplomatic avoidance of what it regards as an ever worsening climate crisis, driven in part by unrelenting fossil fuel recovery and continued pushback by influential oil industry officials, United Nations’ Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, now appears to have ‘called time’ on the ‘softly, softly’ position with which the body has been taking on unchecked fossil fuel recovery.