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Big meat and dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at Cop28
Food and agriculture firms have sent three times as many delegates to the climate summit as last year
Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at Cop28, with three times as many delegates representing the meat and dairy industry as last year.
Representatives are present from some of the world’s largest agribusiness companies – such as the meat supplier JBS, the fertiliser giant Nutrien, the food giant Nestlé and the pesticide company Bayer – as well as powerful industry lobby groups.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Friday December 8, 2023
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The Guardian view on Cop28: a phase-out of fossil fuels is the only decision that makes sense | Editorial
Oil and gas interests are fighting hard to prevent decarbonisation, as they always have done
It was never really in doubt. But the first week of Cop28, which ended with a rest day on Thursday, made one crucial fact impossible to ignore: the fossil fuel industry is not planning to go quietly. Far more of its lobbyists are in the UAE than have attended UN climate talks before. One analysis counted 2,456 of them – nearly four times the number registered last year in Egypt.
The battle is hotting up over what next week’s report on progress towards the Paris goals, known as the global stocktake, will say. Fossil fuel interests – both corporate and national – are pushing hard to avoid references to the phase-out that would signal the end of their business model and vast profits. They don’t want an energy transition that leads to their demise.
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Bomb attack on Ulez camera ‘grotesquely irresponsible’, says London mayor
Blast in Sidcup not being treated as terrorism but counter-terror officers are leading investigation
The London mayor’s office has condemned a “grotesquely irresponsible” attack in which a camera enforcing the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was damaged with what appeared to be a homemade bomb, saying lives were put at risk.
There was no immediate reaction on the incident from Downing Street or the Home Office, with No 10 saying it could not comment amid a police inquiry, but that it condemned “criminality more generally”.
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EU agrees deal to cut emissions from homes and buildings
New buildings must be zero-emission and have solar panels by 2030, and fossil fuel boilers to be banned by 2040
New buildings in the EU must have no emissions from fossil fuels by 2030, and boilers that use those sources will be banned by 2040 under a new deal on energy and homes.
The rules, agreed between MEPs and member states but not yet formally adopted, set targets to make buildings waste less energy. Subsidies for standalone oil and gas boilers will stop by 2025.
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