Will Tuladhar-Douglas#COP28 No appeasement for petrostates.
The second, "compromise" text is what the fossil fuel industries and their client governments are hoping for. No agreement woukd be better than appeasement. I hope AOSIS and others have the strength to walk away unless there is binding language that includes phase out of production and consumption of fossil fuels.
"The UN climate change conference is failing humanity and Mother Earth. We are seeing firsthand the fossil fuel polluters and wealthy governments manipulating developing countries to undermine real action on climate change. " --Tom Goldtooth, quoted in the Guardian. <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2023/dec/13/cop28-live-updates-news-agreement-outcomes-draft-text-fossil-fuels>
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