Coal, oil and gas businesses are desperate to distract, derail and delay the solution to our climate problem. That's why so many them are there at the conference.
Hope Cop28 sets their goal ambitiously. Fossil fuel companies are flush enough with cash. They can go play with carbon capture on their own and prove it works before we make any promises on it.
That's why they're so desperate to agree to a "phase down" and not a "phase out". Extraction increased but at a lower rate than demand increased? That could technically be a phase down. Extraction stayed the same emitted slightly less because of carbon capture? That could technically be a phase down.
Hope Cop28 sets their goal ambitiously.
They will not. COP28 is led by fossil fuel billionaires and oil executives. Their goal is to placate the public with the false message that everything is being taken care of and there is nothing to worry about.
COP28 is not a legitimate climate summit. It is a PR stunt for the fossil fuel industry with deadly deceptive messaging. We should not be posting articles about COP28 that aren't calling them out as fake.
I know its being led and run by oil company presidents. One can still hold false hope. Unlikely that some major promise will come tomorrow yet, they need to do better than just soapboxing for "carbon capture".
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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