Criminalize Fossil Fuel Disinformation, Says UN Rapporteur - CleanTechnica

The article discusses a significant report by Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, which calls for urgent and transformative action to phase out fossil fuels due to their severe, widespread, and intergenerational human rights impacts. Morgera frames the fossil fuel crisis as a fundamental right to life issue, emphasizing that continued reliance on oil, gas, and coal threatens the existence of humanity. The report asserts that wealthy fossil fuel-producing nations like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia have a legal obligation under international law to fully phase out fossil fuels by 2030 and to compensate affected communities. It also demands bans on fracking, oil sands, gas flaring, fossil fuel exploration, subsidies, investments, and misleading technological solutions that perpetuate fossil fuel dependency. A particularly radical aspect of the report is its call to criminalize fossil fuel disinformation, proposing prohibitions on fossil fuel companies lobbying or advertising to prevent the spread of misleading information that undermines climate action. Mor