Conference of Parties 29 - Big Oil
The U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, has ended with wealthy, polluting nations pledging to pay a total of $300 billion a year to help developing nations cope with the climate crisis until 2035. Climate justice activists and Global South nations slammed the final finance deal as a "drop in the bucket" compared to what is needed. It's has become increasingly, disappointingly, horrifically obvious that the annual United Nations climate negotiations... the Conference of the Parties , or COP... has become co-opted by Big Oil . It is now commonplace for increasing numbers of fossil fuel lobbyists and big oil execs attending, to cut back-room oil deals on the sidelines of the conference. It is a slap in the face to witness the placement of oil executives in leadership positions at the conference. As former UN leaders Ban Ki-moon and Christiana Figueres join global climate leaders in calling for an overhaul of the system, documents newly uncovered by DRILLED , a global ...
