Hi John,
Today the UK Government just announced the list of sponsors for next year’s UN climate talks. Surprise, surprise - one of them is the owner and operator of Scotland's most polluting power plant. [1]
There’s no room for polluters at the UN climate talks - please sign!
In November next year COP26, the UN climate talks, will be held in Glasgow - a critical moment for global leaders to make decisions to protect our future.
Every year, big companies sponsor the climate talks and the UK government have stated recently that they want the companies sponsoring COP26 to be "driving positive change and innovation towards a lower carbon world". [2]
But today it’s been revealed that big fossil fuel companies like BP and Shell are trying to get their logos in the picture. What’s even worse is that it looks like the summit organisers are seriously considering it. [3]
Tell Alok Sharma, President of COP26, that big polluters have no place at the climate talks.
Fossil fuel companies are desperate to look like they’re part of the solution and they know how to say the right things.
But we know that BP’s own ‘net zero’ announcement contains some huge loopholes [4] and they continue to be one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers, openly admitting that they want to still be extracting oil and gas in 2050. Shell and Equinor’s climate plans are even weaker.
COP26 will lose all credibility if it is sponsored by any of the companies or banks that are driving the climate crisis, especially those who are seeking to dress up their destruction with inadequate targets and false solutions.
Fossil fuel companies are climate criminals. BP and Shell are responsible for human rights violations and climate impacts across the globe and they have no place in the talks. If a company is currently a major polluter, then it should not be allowed to buy credibility by sponsoring the negotiations.
We have a short window of time to act before the sponsors are selected.
Let’s make sure the government knows that polluters have no place in Glasgow.
Help keep climate-wrecking companies out of the UN climate talks.
In solidarity,
Jess - Culture Unstained, Scott - Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, Belén - Corporate Europe Observatory, Sally - Biofuelwatch, The Team - Polluters Out, Ric Lander - Friends of the Earth Scotland and Anna - 350
Sources:
[1] Ineos, SSE, and Exxon top climate polluter ‘league of destruction’ - The Ferret
[3] The Guardian
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