International climate policy experts have denounced the ‘hypocrisy’ of some developed countries for their continued expansion of fossil fuel production despite lofty promises to combat climate change and have asked them to come clean to the COP28 in Dubai and demonstrate genuine leadership.
A new report titled ‘Planet Wreckers: How 20 Countries’ Oil and Gas Extraction Plans Risk Locking in Climate Chaos’ has exposed the staggering scale of the issue, revealing that five Global North countries — the US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK — account for 51 per cent of the planned expansion from new oil and gas fields through 2050.
