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Al Gore Wants to Weaken Petrostates' Power Over Global Climate Decisions
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The meetings are run by consensus, meaning any one country can block an agreement. It was a condition that Saudi Arabia enforced by not allowing voting rules to be agreed at the start of the COP process in 1995. As a result, whatever the nearly 200 countries gathered at COP28 in Dubai this month decide to do to tackle global warming will reflect only the minimum steps that all nations are willing to take.
“The situation that leaves our world community in is that we have to beg for permission from the petrostates,” to “protect the future of humanity,” Gore said at the Bloomberg Green summit at COP28 on Tuesday. And time and again, he said, the answer from petrostates is “no, sorry.”
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Countries could put forward a proposal to change the voting rules under the UN climate body’s treaty, but it has to be done six months before the next COP. Gore said he plans to gather advocates to push for decisions to be approved by a super majority of 75% of nations before COP29. It would be “extremely difficult,” he said, but “the stakes are so high that we have to try every strategy.”
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“The UN Secretary General should share the authority for naming the COP,” he said. “We have to change this process. It’s just not fit for purpose.”
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