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Title: World Faces New Danger of 'Economic Denial' in Climate Fight, Cop30
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Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/2048...

The world is facing a new form of climate denial -- not the dismissal of
climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be
reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has
warned. The Guardian reports: Andre Correa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian
diplomat who will direct this year's UN summit, Cop30, believes his biggest
job will be to counter the attempt from some vested interests to prevent
climate policies aimed at shifting the global economy to a low-carbon
footing. "There is a new kind of opposition to climate action. We are facing
a discredit of climate policies. I don't think we are facing climate denial,"
he said, referring to the increasingly desperate attempts to pretend there is
no consensus on climate science that have plagued climate action for the past
30 years. "It's not a scientific denial, it's an economic denial." This
economic denial could be just as dangerous and cause as much delay as
repeated attempts to deny climate science in previous years, he warned in an
exclusive interview with the Guardian.

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