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Those at the fore of climate action are saying at COP 29 in Baku that they are outnumbered by fossil fuel lobbyists who are intent on stalling their efforts. On Friday marked the close of the first week of negotiations in Azerbaijan.
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00:00From the COP29 Presidency Quarters, progress is being had.
00:05We have seen encouraging signs that the parties are starting to engage with each other on
00:09different elements of the goal, particularly those considered low-hanging fruit.
00:15However, we must be honest.
00:17We believe that the pace of their work is currently too slow.
00:21We cannot afford to leave too much ground to be covered later in the summit at the political
00:26level.
00:27We are urging everyone to intensify their engagements and remain focused on the imperative
00:32to make quick progress.
00:34But for climate justice activists like the Climate Action Network, these efforts are
00:39woefully insufficient.
00:42We hear silence when for 30 COPs we fly from all around the world to demand justice and
00:47we only get empty promises, greenwash and useless words with no action.
00:54We hear silence when we watch oil and gas executives sign the dotted line on more than
01:00US$250 billion in oil and gas expenditure since COP28 last year, according to new research
01:08by Oil Change International.
01:11We hear silence while we watch Global North governments spend trillions on war machines
01:17that fuel violence around the world and come here to hear that there are zero dollars to
01:22pay their climate debt.
01:24The global campaign to kick big polluters out says there are more than 1,770 fossil
01:32fuel lobbyists at COP29.
01:35It also shows that we do urgently need a conflict of interest policy in this space.
01:42We can no longer pretend that these numbers will not make these negotiations fail in reaching
01:48the 1.5 degree target.
01:51Another lobbyist group, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, says the election
01:56of Donald Trump will definitely stall their efforts.
01:59His team's proposed Project 2025 would not only pull out of the Paris Agreement but possibly
02:06the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the core of their economic policy being
02:14what they call drill baby drill, thinking that the tariffs and other punitive measures
02:20that the US could impose on other countries could be offset by lower energy costs.
02:26The limitations of the Trump administration are evident.
02:30The Trump administration is projected to cause an addition of four billion tons of carbon
02:33to the atmosphere as our future president has sold the keys of our future to his cronies
02:37in the oil and gas industry.
02:40The Biden administration, like every democratic administration before it, has regrettably
02:43refused to substantively begin the phase out of oil and gas while they had the power to
02:48do so.
02:49It took a woman with Caribbean roots to point out that in any spectrum, Afro-descendants
02:54are those to suffer most.
02:57The data shows from the People's Permanent Forum that wherever we are located in the
03:01Americas, Europe or Asia, we are at the margin of society.
03:06We are the ones who are suffering from land loss, living in...
03:10I'm just closing.
03:14Suffering from land loss and suffering from living in areas that are near polluted sites
03:21and toxic sites, or suffering from respiratory disease, heart disease and a whole bunch of
03:27other elements that are affecting Afro-descendants wherever you look.
03:31From the Caribbean, from North America, Canada, Birmingham, Berlin, wherever we are, we are
03:39suffering incredibly from climate change.
03:43We are suffering from climate change.
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