Nope, wait, nope, they want to go after lobbyists
Climate change: UN to unmask fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks
Oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, the UN says.
For years, fossil fuel employees have been able to attend without having to be clear about their relationship with their companies.
Last year, over 600 industry participants were able to enter the COP27 meeting in Egypt.
Campaigners say the UN ruling is the first step to limiting the influence of polluters.
The new rules will be in place for the COP28 summit in November in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s top oil producers. UAE oil company chief Sultan Al Jaber will preside over the summit, an appointment that has irked environmentalists.
Every year, political leaders from around the world attend the Conference of the Parties or COP meeting, where key decisions are made on how the world tackles climate change.
Forty percent of the UAE’s economy is based on the export of oil and natural gas. Great place to hold a UN climate meeting.
How many of those political leaders will be arriving on fossil fueled private flights? How about all the other big wigs?
As well as politicians and diplomats, the events are attended by environmental campaigners who see ending the global reliance on fossil fuels as the key goal for the COP process.
How many of them, and celebrities, will arrive via fossil fueled private flights? Or, heck, even just fossil fueled public flights?
Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as the world’s elite gathered to lecture people over their own emissions. Do as I say, not as I do! COP is the finest display of climate hypocrisy there is.
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UN chief slams ‘pitiful’ world response to climate change
Climate policies currently adopted will lead to average temperatures 2.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the end of the century, nearly twice the UN goal of a 1.5 degree rise, Guterres said.
“That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful,” Guterres told a press conference.
“We are hurtling towards disaster, eyes wide open — with far too many willing to bet it all on wishful thinking, unproven technologies and silver bullet solutions. It’s time to wake up and step up,” said the UN chief.
He said the fossil fuel industry must undertake not just a transition but full-blown transformation as it moves toward clean energy “and away from a product incompatible with human survival.”
It’d be funny if the fossil fuels industry refused to sell fuels to UN employees, especially top dogs like Guterres, and for jets flying to climate conferences.
Teach
I personally do not think that these 400 jets made any significant impact on the total CO2 that man put into the atmosphere in that particular week.
Neither do I think that the 34 transgendered athletes competing in the NCAA (out of 388000) will cause the downfall of Western Civilization
Bingo, johnnie boy, you nailed it.
#Truth
Bwaha! Lolgf
Still doesn’t make either act moral, fair or right in any way. But as a nazi it figures you’d stick up for the super rich and the perverted. You guys just worship your oligarchs and butt fukers.
Perhaps there is some sort of badge they could wear on their clothing. Maybe something distinctive like a 6 pointed star.