"This year's pivotal UN climate summit in Brazil faces a tidal wave of fake news and disinformation that aims to deflate any unified front on a rapid energy transition away from fossil fuels. COP30 comes at a time when US president Donald Trump, the leader of the world's largest historical carbon polluter, has launched an unprecedented assault on climate and renewable energy programs."
"Such disinformation ignores the reality that emissions from burning coal, gas and oil are changing the Earth's climate and leading to increased drought, flooding, storms, and deadly heat. It also directly contradicts the fact that rapidly growing solar and wind energy capacity has provided the world's cheapest electricity for some time. For every dollar of investment, clean energy also provides three times as many jobs as the fossil fuel industry."
COP30 in Brazil faces a coordinated wave of fake news and disinformation aimed at preventing a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. The US president has amplified false claims about wind energy, issued orders to promote fossil fuels as "affordable and reliable," and portrayed renewables as economically harmful. Such misrepresentation ignores that burning coal, gas, and oil is driving more extreme droughts, floods, storms, and deadly heat. Rapidly expanding solar and wind already supply the cheapest electricity and generate roughly three times more jobs per dollar invested than the fossil fuel sector.
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