“For every dollar the fossil fuel industry spent on drilling & exploration last year, only 4 cents went to clean energy & carbon capture —combined.”
- António Guterres, 18/06/23.

Half a year later, the carbon combustion complex are sabotaging draft texts and making new deals at #Cop28

Example case #ExxonMobil - despite correctly predicting global warming since the late 1970s, acknowledging in internal studies that climate change is real and human-caused, the company's public communications promoted doubt on the matter for decades: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

After record-breaking profits in 2022, #BigOil and major fossil-fuel-producing countries are facing yet another 'supercycle' in the coming years. Funding projects for new oil and gas fields in bn. barrels; compatible with (green) + incompatible with (red) the 1.5°C target (via: Zeit.de)

The CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. presiding #Cop28 is just the most blatant of the fossil industry's efforts to sabotage international law-making and public opinion. Why ask the frogs for opinion when having to drain the swamp?

Fossil fuel consumption subsidies rose to a record of over $1 trillion in 2022 amid the global energy crisis (via: IEA.org).
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was one of the most quickly ratified treaties in UN history - is the fossil industry any less harmful to humanity? #COP28