The UNFCCC is off-track! It is failing the peoples of the world
Date: 14 June 2023
Campaigns: Climate
A Joint Letter from Climate Justice Organisations and Social Movements
Those following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process over the years and those that are aware of the climate emergency are pushing back against the complacency of government and business leaders. The UN climate negotiation process has been captured by corporations that profited from producing the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and who have delayed serious transformative action.
We find it disastrous that the upcoming COP28 in Dubai will be presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation (ADNOC). This is not merely a clear conflict of interest. It is a profound signal that the major greenhouse gas emitters will continue profiteering while our planet burns and without addressing their historic responsibilities.
The discredited and unrepresentative forces within the UNFCCC must be challenged, and the 28th COP in the United Arab Emirates must be exposed for what it is – an unacceptable kowtowing to fossil fuel corporations and other mega-polluters. The high-emitting countries, companies and tycoons can play a part, and serve the people and the planet more broadly, first by beginning a drastic curtailment of fossil fuels in the countries in the global North and big emitters in the global South, for eventual phase-out, based on justice and equity.
