The United Nation’s environment chief has resigned after being accused of ‘obscene CO2 hypocrisy’ for the expenses he claimed while flying around the world to give lectures on climate change.
Erik Solheim has stepped down from his role after an internal audit revealed that he had spent £390,000 on flights and hotel stays in just 22 months and had spent 80% of his time away from his base in Nairobi.
It is believed that Solheim was asked to resign by the UN secretary general, António Guterres and a UN staff union leader branded some of his expenses as ‘mind-blowing’.
Countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden were so incensed at Solheim’s attitude that they were withholding tens of millions of dollars in funding to the UNEP, the UN’s environment programme, threatening a financial crisis.
Erik Solheim stepped down from his role as the United Nation’s environment chief after being accused of ‘obscene CO2 hypocrisy’
Solheim, a former Norwegian diplomat, politician and environment minister, announced on the UN Environment Program’s website that he quit on Thursday, after he had received the final report on the audit of his official travel by the UN’s internal…
