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Share of COP29 badges for Global South NGOs upsets rich countries (www.climatechangenews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there.

I guess the point is that the rich countries and companies are actually happy with this outcome, since less of the pesky NGOs that bother them in the same country can attend.

The point is, contrary to how the article wants to portray it, or you are portraying it, it's not the rich countries or the companies complaining, but the NGOs fighting for climate conscious policies in those rich countries. They say that this makes it so that the rich countries can control who can go to the conference and who can't. So this actually helps those rich polluting governments and companies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you for pointing that out, this part really does not make any sense. Not to sure what I had in mind, so I thought of making an edit with a strikethrough so that the sentence does make sense.