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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

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Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused.

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