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This is being pushed by the governments of Columbia and The Netherlands

To avoid COP mistakes, Santa Marta conference must be shielded from fossil fuel influence

Next week, dozens of governments will gather in the Colombian city of Santa Marta for a conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels.

The conference is a first of its kind, in name and in practice. It’s a welcome change to see a platform for global climate action actually acknowledge the primary cause of the climate crisis – fossil fuels. This sends a clear message about what needs to be done to avoid tumbling off the climate cliff edge we are precariously balancing on.

The agenda set for governments to hash out goes further than any other multilateral space has managed to date. Over the week, participants will discuss how to overcome the economic dependence on fossil fuels, transform supply and demand, and advance international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels.

Alongside the conference, academics, civil society, movements and others are convening to put forward their visions of a just and forever fossil fuel phase out. The conference can help shape pathways and tools governments can use to achieve a fossil-fuel-free future, particularly if the dialogue begins with an honest assessment of “fair shares.”

They couldn’t do this over a zoom call to avoid all those fossil fueled flights?

Unless platforms like the UNFCCC take concerted action to protect climate policymaking from the profit-at-all-costs agenda of polluters, the world will not deliver the climate action people and the planet deserve.

And the fuck are you to tell the rest of us what to do? To tell us how we can live our lives? If you really want to end fossil fuels why not spend all this money to create a working, affordable, dependable alternative?

See that link in the 2nd paragraph of the first excerpt? Read that whole thing. It is an amazing bit of Modern Socialism, unhinged and pretty much devoid of science, because that’s what this whole thing is, a political movement. Economic liberation? Transforming supply and demand? These are phrases for, really, far far right Authoritarianism. Coming from people who really have no clue how to run a business.

1. Thirty years of climate negotiations have not addressed the poison in the system: fossil fuels. Santa Marta must be the summit that starts designing the cure: a binding global Treaty to transition away and phase them out.

2. We face not a single crisis, but a web of them — climate chaos, mass extinction, economic instability, and conflict — all fueled by the same source. The Fossil Fuel Treaty is the comprehensive solution that addresses them all at once.

3. The recent International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion changed the rules. New fossil fuel projects are not just dangerous, they risk breaking international law. Santa Marta is where governments must act on this new legal reality.

4. Real security in the 21st century doesn’t come from controlling oil & gas fields, but from liberating every nation from the tyranny of fossil fuel dependency and debt entrapments. The Treaty is our shared security strategy.

Real security comes from the government owning your life, you know. While the big wigs take long fossil fueled trips to beautiful seaside vacations spots. Seriously, this conference is really giving the game away.

Read: Dozens Of Governments Will Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Try And End Fossil Fuels »

The People’s Republik Of California could avoid this altogether by banning the use of fossil fuels in the state

Calif. climate change lawsuits paused during SCOTUS review

Lawsuits over climate change in California will be on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether they can be pursued.

San Francisco Judge Ethan Schulman Tuesday issued a stay of the litigation, finding it would “be in the interests of justice” to do so while the Supreme Court makes its decision in Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor.

Dozens of lawsuits brought by government officials who hired private lawyers on contingency fees have been filed through the years, though only Hawaii’s and Colorado’s supreme courts have let them progress past Big Oil’s motions to dismiss. Most recently, the Maryland Supreme Court affirmed dismissals of cases by Annapolis and Baltimore, finding they “cannot be seriously contemplated.”

Though they make claims for public nuisance and violations of consumer protection laws, defendants and the Trump administration assert they are improper attempts to influence the international energy market. State judges in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, New York, Maryland and New Jersey have agreed.

“Pausing wasteful and nonsensical claims that 50 US states and their subdivisions should set global climate policy through lawsuits is a victory for common sense and reliable energy,” said Theodore Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, who represents Chevron.

I wonder if one of the Conservative justices will note that most of the cities and counties suing have failed to give up their own use of fossil fuels for their operations.

The cases consolidated in San Francisco include the State of California’s, San Mateo County’s, Marin County’s, Oakland’s, Imperial Beach’s, Santa Cruz’s, Richmond’s and San Francisco’s.

Jackpot-seeking lawyers crafted their complaints to claim companies like Exxon tricked the public into using fossil fuels. They were also designed to stay out of federal court, where the energy industry could have mounted an even stronger defense.

These are all shakedown suits. That’s it.

Read: PRC Climate (scam) Lawsuits Put On Hold Till Supreme Court Rules »