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Speaking at COP29 today, experts on the intersection of fossil fuels and justice in Palestine highlighted how multiple systems of oppression converge to perpetuate violence against communities in Palestine.
For the first time in three years of negotiations towards the new climate finance goal due at the end of COP29, we finally have a draft text that includes options for rich countries to pay the scale and quality of finance they owe, and for urgently needed support to flow towards a fair fossil fuel support.
In defiance of the clear science and the recent decision at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to globally transition away from fossil fuels, Adnoc is set to be the second biggest expander of oil and gas extraction in the near term.
The climate movement demands a process free of fossil influence, including real conflict-of-interest policies to keep fossil interests from co-opting the talks and social pressure to block the oil, gas, and coal industries from leading the energy transition.
"We need a shift away from the business-as-usual threatening lives and wrecking the climate, but Azerbaijan appointing another lifelong oil man to lead the next UN climate talks pushes us closer to the abyss," said Rees.
Groups denounced the final statement from leaders of ASEAN member states, as leaders announced the Asia Zero Emission Community Joint Statement claiming a need to use gas, ammonia, biomass, hydrogen, and nuclear for greenwashing in Asia.
“The draft text calls for the first time on all parties to contribute to the transition away from fossil fuels, which is unprecedented in the UNFCCC and would have been unimaginable just two years ago. "
“People power put a full, fast, fair, and funded fossil fuel phaseout at the top of the UN agenda. While we didn’t get there, we secured the first UN climate agreement that calls on all countries to ‘transition away from fossil fuels,’ sending an unprecedented signal to the fossil fuel industry that its days are numbered. This progress has only been achieved by decades of struggle by frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, and the most affected countries."
Analysis released today by the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) and Oil Change International confirms that: At least 127 countries have called for or endorsed a decision to phaseout fossil fuels at this year’s UN climate negotiations. These countries account for 71.7% of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and represent 46.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 69.7% of global GDP.
As the negotiations heat up, so does the pressure to deliver a fossil fuel phaseout. In the final hours of COP28, groups push to exclude fossil fuel industry dangerous distractions from global climate change agreement. Join us for the events below. We will follow up with a reaction to the latest GST draft once it becomes available.
Minutes ago, the UNFCCC published the latest draft of the Global Stocktake, which countries will negotiate into the final hours of the UN climate talks in Dubai, and be the defining agreement of COP28.
CCS is a dangerous distraction from real climate leadership. Norway is the #2 public subsidizer of carbon capture and storage, new analysis from Oil Change International (OCI) reveals. The United States is #1 and the EU is #3.
