Day 6 at COP28 and at the spotlight are energy, just transition and the Indigenous Peoples Day. Here are the updates:
- At least, 2456 fossil fuel lobbyists are currently present at the climate conference breaking the previous year record of 636. That’s according to the Kick Big Polluters Out Coalition.
- According to a report released by Greenpeace Netherlands, Europe’s 9 biggest oil and gas companies emissions could have caused 360,000 temperature related deaths. The companies includes: Shell, TotalEnergies, BP, Equinor, Eni, Repsol, OMV, Orlen, and Wintershall Dea. The collective emissions of these ten companies which were 2.7 billion metric tonnes of CO2 could have caused 360,000 deaths associated with the increase in temperatures.
- 60 countiries have signed the pledge to reduce their emissions from cooling. According to UNEP, the emissions from cooling are likely to increase to triple by 2050, with emissions likely to increase between 4.4 billion to 6.1 billion tones of CO2. The pledge aims to reduce emissions by 68% by the year 2050.
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