Hi John,
It’s been 5 years since thousands of us took to the streets for the Paris UN climate talks and demanded urgent action for climate justice. And in preparation for next year’s UN climate talks, the UK are today co-hosting a summit calling for action and celebrating itself as a climate leader after announcing plans to stop funding overseas oil and gas projects. [1]
Meanwhile, some of the UK’s dirtiest polluters are claiming to be climate leaders too, saying that they now have “ambitions” to go Net Zero by 2050.
Sounds great! But it turns out, their ambitions aren't actually very ambitious…
Net Zero doesn’t mean zero emissions. These Big Polluters’ plans are non-binding, and full of loopholes and empty promises about taking action in the future. All in an attempt to make them sound like climate leaders while barely shifting from business as usual.
Watch and share this video now to help expose their empty promises.
For example, a Net Zero pledge from Barclays may sound great, but it still allows the bank to pump even more money into polluting fossil fuel companies in 2020 than they did 2019.
At the same time we’re seeing ever more devastating impacts of climate breakdown around the world - disastrous flooding in Bangladesh and fires ravaging the Amazon.
What’s worse, these companies aren’t only contributing to climate breakdown - they’re also pretending to be part of the solution. Suggesting they can magically offset the emissions, with false solutions like carbon capture or by planting a lot of trees.
Huge chunks of Net Zero plans are dependent on these unrealistic solutions but there is just not enough available land on the planet to accommodate all of the combined corporate and government “net zero” plans for offsets.
Scientists are saying countries and corporations must shift focus from distant net zero targets to real emissions reductions now [2]. Instead of relying on future technologies and harmful land grabs, we need climate plans that get us to to Real Zero - and that means stopping all fossil fuels.
Watch and share this video now to show that we’re not buying Big Polluter’s Net Zero claims - We want Real Zero now!
And in 2021 we’ll be scaling up our actions to hold the UK’s biggest polluters to account.
In solidarity,
Anna and the Kick Polluters Out team.
Sources:
[1] New York Times
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