from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 12:15
https://lemmy.world/post/38968609
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian.
One in four of the big agriculture lobbyists (77) are participating at Cop30 as part of an official country delegation, with a small subset (six) with privileged access to the UN negotiations where countries are meant to hash out ambitious policies to curtail global climate catastrophe.
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I suppose it makes sense to have the lobbyists attend a discussion trying to find a solution to a problem those same lobbyists are atleast partway responsible for. Their opinion should mean fuck all though.
I'm fully in support of putting said lobbyists in stockades and providing rotten produce to the rest of the attendees to throw at these fuckers. At least it reduces food waste a little.