UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying | Climate crisis

command United Nations The expert calls for criminal penalties against these roaming misinformation about Climate crisis And a complete ban on pressure on the fossil fuel industry and advertising, as part of the root disposal of human rights protection and planetary disasters.

Elisa Morgara, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Climate Change that he offers New report To the General Assembly in Geneva on Monday, it argues that the countries of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuels are legally binding under international law to gradually dispose of oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate for societies.

Cracks, oil sands and gas lift must be banned, as it should Fossil fuel Exploration, subsidies, investments and wrong technology solutions that will close future generations for pollution and increasing oil, gas and coal.

“Despite the overwhelming evidence of the effects of the association, between generations, extreme and wide on human rights for the life cycle of fossil fuel … These countries still accumulate huge profits of fossil fuels, and still do not take a decisive action,” said Morigor, a professor of global law at Strichy.

“These countries are responsible for not preventing human rights damage on a large scale arising from climate change and other planetary crises that we face – the loss of biological diversity, plastic pollution and economic inequality – caused by the extraction of fossil fuels, use and waste.”

Countries, original societies and other weak societies – who have benefited at least from fossil fuels – face the worst and inherited pain caused by the climate crisis and other environmental damage associated with extracting, transporting, using it for energy, fuel, food and artificial fertilizers.

the The report refers to a mountain of evidence of severe long-term and cumulative damage caused by the fossil-oil-oil industry, gas, coal, fertilizers and plastic materials-on all human right including rights to life, self-provision, health, water, housing, education, information and detection.

Morgerra explains “disposal” of our entire economies – in other words, eliminating fossil fuels from all sectors, including policy, finance, food, media, technology and knowledge. She says that transition to clean energy is not sufficient to address the widespread and increasing damage caused by fossil fuels.

In order to comply with the current international The Human Rights Law, countries are obligated to inform their citizens of the widespread damage caused by fossil fuels and that the gradual disposal of oil, gas and coal is the most effective way to fight the climate crisis.

People have the right to know how the industry-its allies-the 60-year-old to reach this knowledge and climate work with meaning by collecting misleading information and wrong information, and attacks on climate scientists and activists, and by capturing democratic decision-making spaces including the annual United Nations negotiations.

Morgan said in an imperative necessity Get rid of our economies report.

Countries must prohibit fossil fuel advertisements and pressure, criminalizing greenery (wrong and misrepresentation) by the fossil fuel industry, the media and advertising companies, and the application of harsh penalties for attacks on climate advocates who face a rise in harmful claims, and formulation in cold.

Societies around the world face increasing threats of sea level rise, press, dehydration, ice flowers, severe heat, floods, and other climate -related effects. This is at the head of deadly air pollution, water scarcity, loss of biological diversity, and forced displacement of the original and rural peoples associated with each stage of the life of fossil fuel.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel and petrochemical fuel companies have benefited from huge profits, taxpayers support, tax avoiding plans, and unnecessary protection under the International Investment Law – without reducing energy poverty and economic equality. In 2023, oil and gas companies obtained a global level of 2.4 trillion, while coal companies achieved $ 2.5 trillion, according to the report.

The removal of fossil fuel subsidies, which is estimated at $ 1.4 trillion for members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and 48 other countries in 2023, would reduce emissions by up to 10 % by 2030.

The redirect of these benefits would help the countries that produce the wealthy fossil fuel to fulfill their legal obligations with the help of developing countries gradually dispossession of fossil fuels-and provide financial treatments and other widespread violations of human rights and the environmental damage that caused them-and continues to cause.

Compensation can also be funded by imposing sanctions on the damage caused by fossil fuel companies, breaking the tax evasion and avoiding industry, as well as the introduction of taxes on wealth and sports. The states – and must require the industry to finance climate adjustment, mitigation, loss and damage through the superior climate or other mechanisms that can be accessed directly to affected societies.

Morgara says that the land that was uniquely dedicated to fossil fuel operations should be cleaned, treated and returned to indigenous population societies, African origin and peasants, if they want to return, or they must be somewhat compensated.

The report puts the issue of human rights for decisive and transformative political action to reduce pain and suffering from the climate crisis. Recommendations make a glimpse of a world in which priority is given to the basic rights of all people over the profits and benefits that a few enjoy, but it is likely to be rejected by some as a radical and cannot be raised.

“It is irony that what may seem radical or unrealistic-move to a renewable economy-is now cheaper and safer for our economy and a more healthy option for our societies,” Morgra told the Guardian.

“The transition can also lead to significant savings for taxpayers currently that are currently in response to the effects of climate change, providing healthy costs, as well as recovery of lost tax revenues from fossil fuel companies. This may be the most impressive health contribution that we can make.