{"id":20969,"date":"2018-12-11T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20969"},"modified":"2018-12-11T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:46:29","slug":"leaders-from-frontline-communities-challenge-shell-at-un-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20969","title":{"rendered":"Leaders from Frontline  Communities  Challenge Shell at UN  Climate Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>KATOWICE &#8212; Today, communities directly impacted by Shell\u2019s abusive practices spoke out as fossil-fuel trade association IETA hosted representatives from the Big Polluter for an event at the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change\u2019s 24th conference of the parties (#COP24). The side event happened just days after a Shell executive bragged about the corporation\u2019s influence over the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Shell is one of the world\u2019s largest polluters and has a long track record of obstructing climate policymaking. In 2013, Shell was found guilty of environmental crimes in the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a message for Shell and companies that pretend the solution to the climate catastrophe doesn&#8217;t demand the end of fossil fuels. To the Shell executives who got rich from the suffering of the Ogoni people and communities living on the frontlines of dirty energy and climate change impacts we say: You are the last gasp of a system on the way out. You are on the wrong side of history. We will not rest until you stop extracting fossil fuels and pay for the damage you have caused.\u201d &#8211; Sara Shaw, Friends of the Earth International<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday the world celebrated 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the Niger Delta we have endured 60 years of gross oil pollution, gas flares and human rights abuses. Today the world has 12 years to right the wrongs. Shell and their cohorts must be kicked out of the COP and held to account.\u201d &#8211; Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so transparent &#8211; everything we\u2019ve been saying about the role the market mechanisms are playing, is possible to see right here. It is a false solution. A loophole for dirty energy corporations to continuing polluting, through offset mechs these corporations are continuing to pollute and devastate environmental justice communities<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=17463&amp;ad_type=64&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Second thing is that the majority of forests that are offset are on indigenous lands &#8211; in this form REDD+ and other kinds of offset mechanisms are fueling land grabs and massive violations of human rights in the global south. We must reject their presence and influence here.\u201d &#8211; Alberto Saldamando, Indigenous Environmental Network and It Takes Roots delegation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is precisely why the UNFCCC needs a conflict-of-interest policy. The only thing Shell Oil should be contributing at these talks is a commitment to remunerate countries for the devastation its decades of climate deception and carbon extraction have caused. Instead, it\u2019s using every tool at its disposal to convince governments here to advance its dangerous schemes. Shell is savvier in advocating its agenda, to be certain, than the Trump Administration in its oxymoronic sideshow for \u201cclean fossil fuels.\u201d But its intention is similar: To greenwash and otherwise obfuscate its role in writing a Paris roadmap written by and for the world\u2019s biggest polluters. But media, negotiators, and civil society won\u2019t be duped: The growing movement &#8212; represented by the People\u2019s Demands for Climate Justice &#8212; calling to keep fossil fuels in the ground and kick Big Polluters like Shell out of climate policy is determined to ensure the Paris Rulebook advances true climate justice.\u201d &#8211; Sriram Madhusoodanan, Corporate Accountability<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, Shell has violated human rights and devastated communities around the globe. It\u2019s done this while wrecking the climate and doing everything it can to lock in decades\u2019 more extraction of dirty fossil fuels and profits for its executives. Canada should be ashamed for lending credibility to today\u2019s panel and legitimising Shell\u2019s presence at the UN. It\u2019s time for governments to reject false solutions like Shell\u2019s Sky Scenario, kick Shell out of the climate talks, and stand with the frontline communities most impacted by Shell\u2019s greed.\u201d &#8211; Collin Rees, Oil Change International<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shell is a big-time polluter playing saint at the COP. Their track record of environmental degradation and human rights abuses have continued to affect communities in the Niger Delta with differentiated impacts on women and vulnerable groups. Having Shell organising a side event at this COP to promote false solutions is not only a slap on our faces and impacted communities in the frontline, it is a sacrilege on Mother Earth. If we must make progress with the climate talks, Shell should be kicked out of COP. We demand Climate Justice for ALL.&#8221; &#8211; Rita Uwaka, Friends of the Earth Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber one: We must kick Big Polluters out of the talks. Big Polluters are writing the script behind the scene and this side event is evidence. We need to kick them out of the COP process.\u201d &#8211; Godwin Ojo, Environmental Rights Action, Friends of the Earth International<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the People\u2019s Demands, a set of six calls to governments, were delivered to the UNFCCC Executive Secretariat. Over three hundred organizations from over 129 countries support the demands, which include a call for an end to corporate capture.<\/p>\n<p>Countries have failed to make substantive progress at this year\u2019s talks, and corporate capture of the climate negotiations has become a contentious issue. This year, the conference is bankrolled by some of the largest oil, coal, and gas corporations in the European Union, which raises questions about the level of access and influence fossil fuel corporations have at the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Fiona Broom fionab@foei.org, +44 7460 771670 11 Dec. 2018<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Bragg, jbragg@corporateaccountability.org<\/p>\n<p>+1-978-621-2619<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATOWICE &#8212; Today, communities directly impacted by Shell\u2019s abusive practices spoke out as fossil-fuel trade association IETA hosted representatives from the Big Polluter for an event at the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change\u2019s 24th conference of the parties (#COP24). 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