The World Health Organization prohibits tobacco companies and lobbyists from attending its summits, yet the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) has no conflict of interest policy allowing organizers to ban bad-faith actors from registering as observers.
The climate action obstructionists at Cop28 include the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest fossil fuel trade group which for years has blocked efforts to pass domestic legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Internal documents suggest that the API, which is attending as an accredited observer delegation like Greenpeace and Amnesty International, has been misleading the public on climate change since the 1980s.
The whole thing was a bad faith action, hosted by a bad faith actor.
Yeah this was a fucking joke. I don’t even know what the event is meant to achieve at this point other than subverting the very effort it’s there to support.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It’s obscene that climate denying organizations and fossil fuel companies’ PR agencies are welcome in these negotiations to spin, lie, and distort,” said David Tong, global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International.
The climate action obstructionists at Cop28 include the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest fossil fuel trade group which for years has blocked efforts to pass domestic legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
API shares the urgency of confronting climate change together, and the natural gas and oil industry is committed to advancing a lower carbon future while meeting rising global demand for affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.”
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a US libertarian thinktank which earlier this year called the IPCC’s final report a “far-left manifesto”, is also at Cop28 as an accredited observer delegation.
In 2022, the company’s alleged use of deceptive PR tactics to mislead the public on climate change and advance fossil fuel interests came under scrutiny from the House committee on natural resources’ oversight and investigations panel.
Internal documents obtained by Greenpeace suggest Edelman was behind a campaign that falsely created the illusion of public backing for the Keystone XL pipeline, on behalf of TransCanada.
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blocked efforts to pass domestic legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions
If only there was a way to not have legislators that choose to cause a mass extinction and kill billions of people. If only it was possible for people to somehow choose more ethical Green legislators instead…
“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities; and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out. […] If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” - George Carlin https://piped.video/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70
