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Almost 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
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More lobbyists for the controversial technology were present this year, despite debate about its viability

At least 480 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been granted access to the UN climate summit, known as Cop29, the Guardian can reveal.

That is five more CCS lobbyists than were present at last year’s climate talks, despite the overall number of participants shrinking significantly from about 85,000 to about 70,000.

CCS lobbyists at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, outnumber the core national delegations from powerful nations including the US and Canada. Nearly half of the lobbyists were granted access as members of national delegations, affording them greater access to negotiations, including 55 who were invited as “guests” by the Azerbaijani government,

On Friday, it was revealed that 1,773 coal, oil, and gas lobbyists have been granted access to the climate talks, including 132 invited by the host country, as the Guardian reported.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Carbon capture has to be the stupidest climate action to ever hit humanity. It's, and I'm not being hyperbolic, completely and utterly useless. We already have a faster, more efficient, nature borne carbon capture, it's called trees. Maybe instead of watering down the deforestation law in Europe, the MEPs should have thought of that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's a con, supported largely by the same companies who have already been committing ecocide.

[–] JohnDClay 3 points 1 week ago

Carbon capture is useful for making aviation fuel, and hopefully eventually plastic. But I'm guessing these people were suggesting carbon capture from polluting power plants?