Essay by Eric Worrall
“… There will also be no requirement to say who’s financing the trip to the COP. …”
Climate change: UN to unmask fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
16 June 2023Oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, the UN says.
For years, fossil fuel employees have been able to attend without having to be clear about their relationship with their companies.
Last year, over 600 industry participants were able to enter the COP27 meeting in Egypt.
Campaigners say the UN ruling is the first step to limiting the influence of polluters.
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With registration for delegates to this year’s COP28 summit in Dubai set to open soon, the UN will now put in place a mandatory question on affiliation.
“From now onwards, every single badged participant attending the event will be required to list their affiliation and relationship to that organisation,” said UN climate chief Simon Stiell, speaking at the closing of a preparatory meeting in Bonn.
Campaigners say the step is long overdue.
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However while information on a delegate’s affiliation will now be mandatory, participants will be allowed to opt out on the nature of their relationship to that organisation.
There will also be no requirement to say who’s financing the trip to the COP.
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Read More: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65917660.amp
The hilarious part of this effort to cleanse the conference of polluters is the conference organiser, Sultan Al Jaber, is the CEO of Adnoc, Abu Dhabi’s national oil company – so he will presumably have to wear a polluter badge.
Personally I think this is a positive step, it will streamline the process of COP conference oil companies handing cash to environmental causes. Climate campaigners will know straight away who to approach for cash to finance their organisation’s expedition to the next COP conference by reading the affiliation list, they won’t have to ask potentially embarrassing questions.
But activists flying in on private jets are exempt of course.
Oh, but that is because THEY are actively saving the earth from us little peasants who don’t really care about mother Gaia, but the climate elites, looking down from their jets from 30,000 feet can feel like they REALLY care.
Next SHOULD BE for every delegate to list the quantity of Fossil Fuel THEY USED to attend the meeting. Including Jet travel both to and from and fuel used in vehicles for transportation while attending
Clothes, food, packaging, sponsorship, jetting off for dinner in Rome ….. the list is endless for the green elites
I wonder if all the runways will have a huge badge on them that says, “You are landing in a BIG OIL country!”?
At some level isn’t everyone a polluter? Exhaler of CO2. Feces secreter. User of manufactured goods not hammered together by naked humans living in a tree using wooden tools. Burner of plants for heat and cooking.
When will it stop? Have we no shame?
Yes, but you see, if we can keep the masses from polluting with CO2 by limiting their access to energy of any sort, then the folks that visit places like COP festivals can be allowed to continue with their lifestyle in the smug assurance that THEIR CO2 isn’t enough to ruin the earth.
No. When it comes to smarmy, hypocritical, repellent virtue-signaling, the climatistas have no shame.
Termites produce about 30% more CO2 than humans, so they’re next, climate jihad never stops.
Let’s see… if you really want to manufacture and install and connect and provide backup power for your massive expansion of intermittent, short-useful-life wind and solar, then the FIRST thing you need is an ample supply of hydrocarbon fuels to make it all happen.
This might all be funny if the whole mess were not so absurdly insane.
I see that The Mekon has grown a beard and a ‘tash although his head has shrunk a bit.
Claiming he is a Big Oil Executive reinforces the idea that he and his Treens were always up to no good, though.
( Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, Eagle comic. )
But where is his magic carpet flying seat?
An AP release.
https://www.britannica.com/news/172717/bea3b4e2ded2ea4e7566419ccb4732c0
Campaigners say the UN ruling is the first step to limiting the influence of polluters.
Those ‘polluters’ are the folks who graciously furnish all you arrogant delegates to fly halfway around the world to preach against jet fuel.
It’s going to be a complicated listing for affiliation.
story tip
Middle East Buyers in $20 Billion Deal Rush for Plastics, Metals (yahoo.com)
“A badge”.
Wot! No pronouns? Maybe next time
Where is the next one slotted in?
Maybe they can also self ID as a green blob peddler even though a FF producer? Play the wokerati at their own game
““A badge”.”
A pale yellow six pointed star ?
“From now onwards, every single badged participant attending the event will be required to list their affiliation and relationship to that organisation,” said UN climate chief Simon Stiell, speaking at the closing of a preparatory meeting in Bonn.”
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Now let me think, what exactly does this remind me of?
Jewish Badge: During the Nazi Era | Holocaust Encyclopedia (ushmm.org)
“Over the course of more than ten centuries, Muslim caliphs, medieval bishops, and, eventually, Nazi leaders used an identifying badge to mark Jews.”
We humans still have some ways to go if we want to get over the idea of witch hunts.
But weren’t they fun and didn’t they produce a sense of community?
I suppose you could say that Andy. But not if you were accused of being a witch yourself.
I put a comment on the Just Stop Oil Facebook page mentioning El Niño and someone came back saying they couldn’t understand why I referred to a boy in Spanish.
Not any exposure to Spanish Catholicism then…😉
No exposure to real climate science either.
I wish the FF industry and nations friendly to FF would have their own anti COP meets at the same time – I could get behind that
I like disclosure. All the government scientists should list all the grants they and their universities have received 1993-2023 on the subjects being discussed.
All the oil majors should send $1 to each and every delegate so that they have to list them on their badge.
Rules like those favor companies that can afford them.
The world needs more than just electricity.
The ruling class are not yet cognizant of the limitations of solar and wind. Those renewables of wind and solar only generate occasional electricity, but manufacture nothing for society.
The ruling class in wealthy countries are not cognizant that the planet populated from 1 to 8 billion in less than two hundred years, and that population explosion began right after the discovery of oil. That growth in the population was not just based on crude oil by itself, as crude oil is useless until it can be manufactured into something useable.
Today, through human ingenuity, we have manufactured that useless oil into more than 6,000 products that are currently benefiting society and fuels for the 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs.
But ridding the world of oil, without a replacement in mind, would be immoral and evil, as extreme shortages of the products manufactured from fossil fuels will result in billions of fatalities from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related deaths. Shortages of fossil fuel products would necessitate lifestyles being mandated back to the horse and buggy days of the 1800’s, and could be the greatest threat to the planet’s eight billion residents.
Disneyworld’s Futureland has not changed much in 30 years, but someone did remove a few plaques that contained words written in the style of Ronald Stein’s comment above.
…1 to 8 billion in less than two hundred years….
So 4 billion people per century could have lived but weren’t conceived due to various issues rooted in inability to use fossil fuels to advantage for labor saving purposes, medicines, heating, agriculture….hmmm, has it occurred to the UN that maybe they are misreading what people need to thrive ?
Yes, all true, but why no response from the petroleum suppliers?(btw, no fossil” has ever been found in petroleum. Its source remains a mystery.It is not the same as coal.)
The major companies would rather play along with virtue signaling, allowing the crackpots from Greta to Gore, a free run for their fear mongering.
And don’t forget that the proper fuel industry saved the whales and cleared the streets of horse manure. Probably had a hand in the end of slavery too.
You are right about the whales and horse dung but slavery is still alive and well.
What would be far more revealing is the greenergy affiliations of the participants. They are the ones doing the serious lobbying and all that entails.
“every single badged participant attending the event”
So who’s going to wander around making sure attendees wear badges where they can be read, and will they throw out people who say no?
Trade show veterans will understand why it can’t happen.
What’s a “climate campaigner”? Never heard that term before. Climate nut job? Climatista? Climatastrologer? Climatepsychotic?
Does anyone actually believe that excluding these fossil-fuel affiliates will lead to any major breakthroughs in commitments to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon emissions? The chances of this happening are about as good as reaching Net Zero by 2050; i.e., next to zero.
Female delegates at UN climate talks allege they were bullied, abused and sexually harassed by male negotiators, casting a deeper shadow over this year’s COP28 summit. Delegates at the UN talks in Bonn this month told the Financial Times of several instances where female delegates faced intimidation or harassment from male counterparts, prompting a letter of protest from two dozen countries worried about abusive behaviour. . .
The allegations are a further blow for the UN climate talks, which will culminate at the end of this year at COP28 in the UAE, a petrostate.
One female negotiator from a G20 country said there was a “culture problem” when it came to the UN conferences, arguing they were marred by “a lot of toxic alpha male behaviour”. “It is very aggressive,” she added. “Men behave worse when they are at these conferences. It is like the wild wild west.”
Perhaps they should rename it COPULATE28.
“With registration for delegates to this year’s COP28 summit in Dubai set to open soon, the UN will now put in place a mandatory question on affiliation. ”
Hmmm…I wonder if that includes any representatives from the oil-rich state of….Dubai?
From the article: “Oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, the UN says.
For years, fossil fuel employees have been able to attend without having to be clear about their relationship with their companies.”
I think COP28 representatives should also be required to disclose their Marxist ties.
Everyone who attends should be required to submit their Curriculum Vita and employment history as well as the number of children they have and their ages. Also, the genus, species and name of any household pets as well as the size (in square meters) of their principal residence, any other buildings they own and a net-worth statement.
Attending meetings wearing sackcloth and ashes is recommended but not required. We will be watching.
Instead of a new carbon tax or EU carbon import tax, I propose a tax on dictatorships.