Thread by @tjayaraman

Shocking tweet by the President of #COP26. Were his dramatics at the closing plenary in Glasgow for real? Here he is, tweeting support to immediate expansion of UK oil and gas. What "new clean energy technology" is he talking about? Stay with the thread... 1/n

https://twitter.com/AlokSharma_RDG/status/1520718181324759041

See the letter from UK Secy of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to oil & gas industry that President of #COP26 is referring to. Open encouragement to invest in oil and gas expansion. New round of auctions of leases to begin. 2/n

Breathtaking hypocrisy. The Energy Secy. asks industry "to set out how you will reinvest profits, double down on investments in the clean energy transition (sic!) and importantly to maximise domestic oil and gas production." 3/n

Complete dismissal of climate activists -- "We will not bend to the will of activists". Why? Because "doing so would put "energy security and British jobs at risk, and simply increases foreign imports, whilst not reducing demand".

So why doesn't the UK set about urgently reducing demand, instead of expanding North Sea oil & gas?? Well, see the extract from the last para of the statement below. Note particularly -- "to protect the North Sea as a major UK energy asset for DECADES TO COME"!!

Clearly the developing world must call the #COP26 Presidency to account for this turn. What is the world supposed to discuss at #COP27 in the so-called "Work Programme on Scaling up Mitigation Ambition"??

Will the UN Secy Gen now speak up against this turn? He has been warning the world that it has only 36 months to start drastic emissions reduction. So will he issue a statement that this is not expected of the UK, #COP26 Presidency, since only months remain?

Will those clamouring for India's immediate emissions reduction, speak up on this for consistency? Will IPCC authors who have warned of the urgency to act, speak up in condemnation, instead of building scenarios which accommodate such developed country concerns?

Those who cannot call out this hypocrisy, have little standing, or indeed perhaps even a right, to debate global climate policy.

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