On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the role of the fossil fuels industry at this year's UN Climate Summit in Dubai. According to the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition, at least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the climate negotiations.
Caroline Muturi, a coordinator at the campaign group Ibon Africa, told the Guardian: "These findings tell us that the dynamics within these spaces remain fundamentally colonial. COPs have become an avenue for these corporations to greenwash their polluting businesses and foist dangerous distractions from real climate action."
Scientists says governments around the globe must transition from fossil fuels in order to truly tackle the climate crisis. Give that, what is the point of COP? What, if anything, is accomplished?
Guests:
Brenna TwoBears, Keep it in the Ground Lead Coordinator for the Indigenous Environmental Network
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University, and author of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Amy Westervelt, award-winning climate journalist and host of Drilled
Web Resources:
The Intercept: Leading news outlets are doing the fossil fuel industry's greenwashing
Scientific American: Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist
Drilled: A true-crime podcast about climate change
The Guardian: Cop28: anger after record number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to summit – as it happened
