The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.
This ridiculous state of affairs can't continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don't have power in.
24 nations, incl. Australia, Britain, & The Netherlands say they will form a breakaway conference from the annual COP conference, without the petro-states, and focused on permanently ending fossil fuel use.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Brilliant
Fossil fuel corps and their slimeball lobbyists can’t get fucked.
Australia is a petrostate. And a coal state. And a gas state.
As an Australian, I know that the Australian federal government (and two state governments) are desperate to keep exporting fossil fuels for a long, long time. The industry lobbyists are inside the building.
It doesn’t matter how many committed countries there are, when a dozen countries can easily reduce all these efforts to zero, what will you do with the largest natural gas, oil and coal exporters and importers? The US, China, India, the Persian Gulf states etc?