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Anger as oil and gas industry veteran chosen to lead next COP climate talks
(www.independent.co.uk)
…. Again? Is COP just a cabal of state-owned oil companies now?
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Yep. The oil and gas industry has successfully taken over the United Nations Climate Change conference.
Why does there even need to be a COP every year? They know what to do, they know what will be enough and they have the authority in their home nations to do it. COP is just theatre.
Why does there even need to be a COP every year?
COP is just theatre.
Asked and answered.
Those G650s aren’t gonna fly themselves, you know. Gotta make it a destination event.
We're speedrunning venus by tuesday
COP is illegitimate and should be treated as such. It is a meeting of fossil fuel executives and billionaires to discuss how to control global messaging on climate change and how to protect fossil fuel profits. There is no other purpose.
The news should remind their audience of this fact every time they mention it. Excluding this information in an article is complicity.
Regulatory capture is wonderful. Where are they going to spend their money when there's no society anymore?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last year there was widespread anger at the appointment of Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to head the climate talks in Dubai.
Ending the burning of fossil fuels is seen as vital to keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C and averting the worst effects, such as drought, floods and devastation of food production.
The Azerbaijani government appointed Mr Babayev, its ecology and natural resources minister, as president of the United Nations Cop29 talks that are due to be held in Baku in November.
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer told The Independent: “A dangerous and very unwelcome pattern is developing with this latest planned appointment – the oil industry capture of the COP process.
However, according to a leaked 2008 telegram from the US Azeri ambassador to the US government, Mr Babayev’s approach put him at odds with Socar’s “grand old man”, a company chief.
He said Socar was trying to establish a master plan for cleaning-up the Absheron Peninsula, devastated by oil and chemicals production, and that his mission was to "change the mentality" of Azerbaijanis over their responsibilities to preserve the environment.
The original article contains 476 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 60%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Meanwhile, the "green, climate-friendly" US is hitting record oil and record gas production. Pointing at this is deflecting from the real issues: while OPEC has cut production recently, the US is happily filling the void.
That's the problem: oil's strategic value makes it impossible for any one party to enforce lower production and higher prices. Any solution needs to consider all stakeholders and set aside moral grandstanding.