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"In recent years, more and more lobbyists from the oil, gas and coal industries
have taken part in international climate negotiations. Estimates of lobbyist
numbers have risen sharply, from 503 at the 2021 Glasgow talks to 1,773 at last
year’s talks in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku.
Ahead of this year’s climate talks, host nation Brazil moved to tackle climate
disinformation and delay tactics with a simple but clear approach: asking
participants to publicly disclose who funded them to attend.
Even so, around 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists arrived at the COP30 climate talks
in Belém, Brazil. If taken as a bloc, they would outnumber every national
delegation other than the host nation.
This shows the size of the challenge Brazil took on as the first COP host in 30
years to push back against the tide of fossil fuel lobbying and climate
misinformation. If this isn’t tackled head on, climate negotiations will keep
avoiding the core issue: phasing out oil, gas and coal, the commodities doing
most damage."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
