This is getting picked up on blogs and so on now because of the recent report release, but the underlying facts about delegate lobbying were known back in 2021,

This is getting picked up on blogs and so on now because of the recent report release, but the underlying facts about delegate lobbying were known back in 2021, thanks to reporting from Unearthed at Greenpeace: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/10/21/leaked-climate-lobbying-ipcc-glasgow/ https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/10/21/leaked-climate-l... On fossil fuels: > Chief among those pushing back against the recommendation that fossil fuels be urgently phased out of the energy sector are Saudi Arabia and OPEC, which together produce around 40% of the world’s oil. > Saudi Arabia repeatedly seeks to have the report’s authors delete references to the need to phase out fossil fuels, as well as an IPCC conclusion that there is an “need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales” On the role of diets in climate change: > Government officials from Brazil and Argentina – both countries with influential agribusiness lobbies that are among the world’s biggest producers of beef and animal feed crops like soyabeans – push repeatedly for the IPCC to remove or water-down messages in the report about the need to curb meat and dairy consumption to tackle global warming. > In comments on the draft seen by Unearthed, both countries call on the authors to delete passages in the text which suggest a shift to plant-based diets would cut greenhouse gas emissions, or which describe beef as a “high carbon” food.