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October 21, 2021

The BBC was able to view several documents relating to the climate summit in Glasgow, Cop26, scheduled for November, from which it emerges that some countries are trying to change the conclusions of the key scientific report on climate change produced by the UN Panel dedicated to the topic.

Among the countries that are lobbying, writes the BBC, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia that ask the UN to reduce the emphasis on the need to drastically and quickly cut the use of fossil fuels. aid to developing countries for the green transition is being discussed.

"This lobby is questioning the COP26 climate summit in November," writes the BBC. The filtered documents include about 32,000 requests made by various governments, companies and other interested parties, to the UN team of scientists who are responsible for putting together the best scientific theses on how to combat climate change. Most of the government comments seen by the BBC, which received them from the UK's Greenpeace investigative team, are constructive and work in an effort to improve the final report.

Among the phrases reported by the BBC, that of a consultant from the Saudi oil ministry according to which phrases such as "the need for urgent and rapid mitigation actions on all levels" should be removed from the report. An Australian official rejects the conclusions on the need to close coal-fired power plants, even though stopping the use of this fuel is one of the objectives of the Glasgow conference.

Saudi Arabia, China, Australia and Japan, major producers and consumers of fossil fuels, and also OPEC, support CO2 capture and storage technologies as a solution to be able to continue producing emissions.

Finally, Saudi Arabia, which is the largest crude oil exporter in the world, calls on UN scientists to eliminate their conclusions pointing to the need for "decarbonisation efforts in the energy sector that lead to a rapid shift to zero-emission sources. with the abandonment of fossil fuels ".

Argentina, Norway and OPEC have also intervened to this effect.

Oslo in particular stressed that scientists should make it possible to use capture and storage technologies as a tool to reduce emissions.