✊ We need to reform the climate negotiations process and make sure the voices of people on the frontlines, not the voices of polluters, are taking center stage. ✊

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👀 While the fossil fuel industry sells carbon capture as a means of “cleaning up” their carbon emissions, more than 70% of captured carbon is used to extract more oil.

Carbon capture 🟰 More #FossilFuel extraction.

What is the big deal? #CarbonCapture could worsen the #ClimateCrisis.

Polluters push carbon capture and storage as a means of trapping their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, transporting them, and burying them underground.

The technology is:
👿 dangerous,
👿 expensive, and
👿 proven to fail.

The number of Carbon Capture and Storage #CCS lobbyists infiltrating #COP30 🐍 is higher than the combined national delegations from the G7 countries (481).

😱 The high number of #CCS lobbyists at #COP30 highlights the large amounts of energy and power the fossil fuel industry is investing to secure its future by selling the idea that governments and companies can 'clean' their use of coal, oil, and gas by capturing and 'managing' emissions.

'In countries threatened by earthquakes, Neumann reminded me, the public tends to be told about the threats, and readied for action. “But we don’t do that here,” she said. “Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it.” #climate #flooding