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Leaked document reveals lobbying to trivialise climate report

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By Patryk Krych | The World Daily | OCTOBER 21st 2021 

 

The huge document leak has revealed that Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, all highly industrious countries, have had a part to play in the attempts to make the United Nations trivialise the need to move away from fossil fuels.

Days before the COP26 climate summit that’s set to take place in November, and in which countries are expected to be asked to make increasingly significant and vital commitments to climate change, the leak had been released and thus revealed several countries’ attempted pushback against the recommendations of the UN.

“Phrases like 'the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales…' should be eliminated from the report,” read one of the leaked documents, written by an adviser to the Saudi oil ministry.

Though ending the use of coal is one of the known objectives of the COP26 summit, it’s been revealed in another of the leaked documents that an Australian government official had protested against this.

Australia is known to have a huge coal and mining industry, and Saudi Arabia among the largest producers of oil in the world. 

 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which is in charge of periodically evaluating the science of climate change and producing a report on the situation every six to seven years, had produced the most recent report which is to be discussed this coming climate summit.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had also chimed in through the leaked documents, having asked the IPCC to “delete 'lobby activism, protecting rent extracting business models, prevent political action'.”

When these comments had been addressed by the BBC, OPEC responded: “The challenge of tackling emissions has many paths, as evidenced by the IPCC report, and we need to explore them all. We need to utilise all available energies, as well as clean and more efficient technological solutions to help reduce emissions, ensuring no one is left behind.”

“There is absolutely no pressure on scientists to accept the comments,” said a leading climate scientist who had assisted in the compiling of three of the IPCC’s major reports, Professor Corinne le Quéré of the University of East Anglia. “If the comments are lobbying, if they're not justified by the science, they will not be integrated in the IPCC reports.”

She added: “The more the reports are scrutinised, the more solid the evidence is going to be in the end, because the more the arguments are brought and articulated forward in a way that is leaning on the best available science.” 

 

By Patryk Krych | © The World Daily 2021 

Source: BBC

 

 

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