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Climate activists taking part in COP27 urged summit leaders and major technology companies to take action against climate change misinformation that is undermining efforts to limit the devastating effects of global warming
Climate activists taking part in COP27 urged summit leaders and major technology companies to take action against climate change misinformation that is undermining efforts to limit the devastating effects of global warming.
In an open letter signed by 550 groups and individuals including former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, the activists called on COP27 delegates to adopt a common definition of climate misinformation to prevent the spread of false information. Importantly, the activists called on technology companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to put in place strict policies to prevent the spread of false climate disinformation on their platforms, along the lines of what they had done during the Covid -19 pandemic.
Activists alleged that economic and political vested interests continued to organize and fund climate misinformation to stall action and demanded swift and robust global action from COP decision-makers and technology platforms to mitigate these threats.
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Importantly, a survey was released recently on climate misinformation in six major countries — Australia, Brazil, Britain, Germany, India, and the United States — lamenting that a large proportion of their populations believed false claims about climate change. At least 20% of respondents in each country believe that the current global warming was natural and not caused by humans. As against this, the human causes of global warming are realistically documented in the reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
