Exclude fossil fuel firms from Cop28 if they only want to obstruct, says ex-UN chief

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Source: The Guardian

Exclude fossil fuel firms from Cop28 if they only want to obstruct, says ex-UN chief

‘My patience ran out,’ said Christiana Figueres, who for years had advocated oil companies should be involved in policymaking talks

Dharna Noor
Thu 21 Sep 2023 21.14 BST
Last modified on Fri 22 Sep 2023 00.51 BST

Fossil fuel companies should not be included in the Cop28 climate summit if they continue to block climate action, the UN’s former climate chief told reporters on Thursday.

“If they are going to be there only to be obstructors, and only to put spanners into the system, they should not be there,” said Christiana Figueres, who was pivotal to the delivery of the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2015.

Figueres made the statement a day after global leaders from more than 100 national governments gathered for the United Nations’ climate ambition summit to outline new plans to curb global heating and adapt to its effects, in preparation for this fall’s Cop28.

The remarks came as part of an interview with the NBC News anchor Zinhle Essamuah at a conference at Columbia Journalism School in New York City convened by the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now and its partners, including the Guardian.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/21/un-cop28-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-action

Alternate non-walled link: https://archive.li/UJyZ1

[Think. Again.]

1. I see her point...

...and find it incredible that COP28 is being led by the president of a fossil fuel firm in the first place.

[hatrack]

2. Uh, has she studied this year's lineup and host nation?

Just wondering . . .