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UAE corruption beyond description means COP28 is likely over before it starts — Bill McKibben

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  1. NonStandardDeviation
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    If you like climate Youtubers, here's Just Have a Think on Sultan Al-Jaber and the oil industry's hijacking of COP28 (see also greenwashing, the fox guarding the henhouse), and Al Gore's talk,...
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    If you like climate Youtubers, here's Just Have a Think on Sultan Al-Jaber and the oil industry's hijacking of COP28 (see also greenwashing, the fox guarding the henhouse), and Al Gore's talk, What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED , about how the fossil fuel industry has used lies to capture the policy-making process around the world, including COP28.

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  2. smoontjes
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    I am really becoming a doomer about the climate crisis.. it makes me shake my head at people like this from my country's biggest newspaper (deepl translation: This is COP28. I really don't know...

    I am really becoming a doomer about the climate crisis.. it makes me shake my head at people like this from my country's biggest newspaper (deepl translation:

    And even though the COP meetings have disappointed in the past, Magnus Bredstof believes that the COP negotiations should be trusted.

    "There is no confidence that this COP can bring the increase below 1.5 degrees. But does it matter? That's a much more complex question to answer. You can also ask yourself, what is the alternative?

    Here you have all the countries in the world coming together to adopt some agreements that they can hold each other to. Admittedly, not legally binding. But they can hold each other up to whether they have lived up to it," says the climate editor.

    This is COP28. I really don't know how you, sound of mind, are able to continue believing that anyone at these conferences actually hold each other responsible for anything at all. It's true that there's no alternative but how is that reason enough to stay optimistic?

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