https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-n-shifts-from-climate-change-to-coronavirus/ > The novel coronavirus pandemic is now the world’s top priority. Climate change will have to be put on the back burner, for now. > That was the message delivered to reporters from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, via an unprecedented online press conference he organized last week. Guterres made himself available only electronically because he is in isolation.