“I know a thing or two about extinction.

These are the first words of Frankie, an original speaker who spoke Wednesday at the podium of the United Nations (UN).

Frankie is… a dinosaur.

In a video released by the United Nations, the animal casually comes to deliver a speech in the UN General Assembly Hall to warn against fossil fuel subsidies, reports

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We can't ignore #ClimateChange any longer.

Unless we end the excuses, we'll be another species facing extinction.



Join us and @FrankieTheDino, and let's take #ClimateAction before it's too late: https://t.co/vf7PQ2oLeR#DontChooseExtinction # COP26 pic.twitter.com/lwAXw4FCYI

- UN Development (@UNDP) October 27, 2021

"Imagine if we had subsidized giant meteors"

Produced in computer graphics, the short film supports a campaign launched by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP): “Don't Choose Extinction”.

It comes a few days before COP26, which will start on October 31.

The velociraptor terrorizes the crowd by stomping into the room and then speaks.

"You are heading for a climate catastrophe, and yet every year governments spend hundreds of billions of public funds on fossil fuel subsidies," he says.

“Imagine if we had spent hundreds of billions of dollars a year to subsidize giant meteors.

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"Ineffective and inequitable" subsidies

The clip resonates with a new study released by UNDP which puts global annual spending to subsidize fossil fuels at $ 423 billion.

With such a budget, it would be simple to vaccinate the entire world population against Covid-19 or cover three times the amount needed to eradicate global poverty, the report notes.

"Fossil fuel aid is both inefficient and inequitable," the UNDP study says.

“In developing countries, about half of public resources allocated to fossil fuel consumption benefit the richest 20% of the population, according to the IMF.

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