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"At least 480 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been
granted access to the UN climate summit, known as Cop29, the
Guardian can
reveal.
That is five more CCS lobbyists than were present at last year’s climate talks,
despite the overall number of participants shrinking significantly from about
85,000 to about 70,000.
CCS lobbyists at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, outnumber the core national
delegations from powerful nations including the US and Canada. Nearly half of
the lobbyists were granted access as members of national delegations, affording
them greater access to negotiations, including 55 who were invited as “guests”
by the Azerbaijani government, which is hosting this year’s climate summit, and
given what some at the conference are calling “red-carpet treatment.”
The figure, calculated by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
and shared exclusively with the Guardian, comes amid concern from activists
that the climate summit is too heavily featuring “false solutions”.
“We are witnessing fossil-fuel greenwashing by those attempting to delay the
inevitable fossil fuels phase-out,” said Rachel Kennerley, a campaigner at
CIEL. “This large presence of lobbyists is a confirmation that the carbon
capture industry is working hard to promote the misguided CCS technology. But
governments and companies simply cannot ‘clean’ their coal, oil, and gas by
capturing and ‘managing’ emissions.”"
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
