U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backed a complete fossil fuel “phaseout” Thursday before boarding a jet and following upwards of 70,000 other climate worriers flying into the two-week COP 28 conference in oil-rich Dubai.
A U.N. agency will deliver an edict Thursday telling prosperous Western countries to save the planet by stopping meat consumption and embracing vegan alternatives.
Private jets. Private yachts. Multiple holidays a year. Garages full of luxury vehicles. Investments driving – and profiting from – fossil fuel industries. These are just some of the factors that combine to see global elites, who comprise one percent of the planet’s population, emit the same amount of carbon as the world’s poorest two-thirds, or five billion people, an analysis published Sunday by the nonprofit Oxfam International details.
