https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c3ad24ce-56af-434a-a558-a44b688c0274 George Monbiot, British writer and environmental campaigner, comments on COP28 (December 2023). Monbiot argues that COP28 is structurally captured by the industries it should be regulating. Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber nearly every national delegation, the summit president (Sultan Al Jaber) is CEO of the UAE's state oil company Adnoc, and the consensus-based system allows any nation to veto meaningful action. "What should be the most important summit on Earth is treated like a trade fair." He argues that the two decisive measures -- agreements to leave fossil fuels in the ground and to end most livestock farming -- have never featured in any COP summit's final outcome, and that since climate negotiations began in 1992, they have coincided with record emissions rather than reductions. Context: Published alongside Monbiot's Guardian article "Baked In" (December 9, 2023) https://www.monbiot.com/2023/12/13/baked-in/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:20:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c3ad24ce-56af-434a-a558-a44b688c0274 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.