We Don’t Have Time partners with UNDP to urge world leaders to end fossil fuel-subsidies
Dinosaur appears in UN General Assembly ahead of the UN COP26 meeting to launch #DontChooseExtinction campaign
Urgent climate action is needed from all world leaders to reach the targets in the Paris Agreement and avoid an existential crisis.
But despite the fact that the emissions need to drop sharply within the next few years, the world’s governments continue to support the fossil-fuel industry with $11 million per minute, according to a new IMF analysis.
Globally, this added up to $5.9 trillion in 2020, or about 6.8 percent of global GDP, according to the analysis. And the number is expected to rise to about 7.4 percent in 2025.
To put a spotlight on how these subsidies fuel the climate crisis, United Nations Development Program, UNDP launched the global campaign #DontChooseExtinction, today in the run up to the UN COP26 meeting. In a humoristic and engaging short film, UNDP brings back a dinosaur to the UN General Assembly to challenge our world leaders and explain why financing mankind’s extinction is a bad idea.
WeDontHaveTime.org, the world’s largest review platform for climate solutions, has strengthened its partnership with UNDP to help spread the campaign to every corner of the world.
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