Implications of Katowice: Where human rights were ignored while big business captured the negotiations
By: Souparna Lahiri* The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24), exposes the perils of a pledge-and-review system. In Katowice, an already weak agreement was further diluted while negotiating the procedures of its implementation through so-called global collective action in which corporations, the fossil fuel and agribusiness lobby, carbon traders and consultants dominate while rightsholders, women, indigenous peoples, youth and local …
