As mayors in the two great cities of the world, we see each day how to appeal to the emergency of the climate, affects people and places we love. From fatal heatwaves and severe floods of inconsistency and health crises driven by air pollution, withdrawal costs are not theoretical; It measured in life taken, houses destroyed and The business income is lost.
Ten years ago, the Agreement in Paris signed, marked a change in world-war fighting against climate disruption. But now, development is caused by threatening: a Drizzle with climate grills and fellowships spreading the spread of the virulent. We cannot allow this hope to lose as the world gathers Belém at the end of 2025 for COP30.
This is not a difference in political or healthy debate opinion. This is a coordination, confidential with good delay in movement, erode in confidence and protection of the profits of the fossil fuel industry, which is profitable from the status quo. These accounts find fertile land of social media, where the algorithms have the anger of the facts. They also progressed in the moments of crisis and confusion, playing with those who have failed communities who do not feel their voices heard in the rulers.
In Paris, disinformation campaigns often seek efforts to develop active travel, reduce air pollution by reducing vehicle use. These attacks are not just from Anonymous Online Accounts;; They are often raised by populistic politicians and partisan influences. As a result, policies intended to clean the air and protect public health that is focused on cultural flashpoints. Supplement streams of seine streams opposed to loud wolves but the results talked for themselves: Since 2011 air pollution from cars reducing 40% of the city.
In London, the expansion of Ultra-Low Eremsion Zone (Ulez), a policy that has been proven Cut pollution and save livesuninterrupted specified by disinformation campaigns. These messages are sown by anonymous accounts, referred to bots and then repeated across partisan media. Campaigns combine existing fears about living expense with more sinful and distinct tropes to be motivated, leading to attack online attacks online Against politicians and supporters, TFL employee abuse doing their jobs installing ulez cameras, and finally dangerous and Dangerous Works of Damut.
To deal with this disinformation flow we do not fear. Cities like London And Paris continues to show that fair, the fast climate action can improve daily life: making streets are safer, the most powerful in the air. But if we protect these profits, we need to discuss climate disinformation by making sure everyone understands and feel the benefits of these success stories.
So, as leaders in C40 cities and the global covenant with the mayors for climate and energy (GOM we build capability across the city’s reliable, and make new tools to activate the wrong goods. But we also need others to act.
We call national governments, journalists, teachers and tech-step companies.
We welcome efforts such as the Digital Serpliction of the EU, which require online platforms against the prevention of illegal content, including groundformation basis, and puts the basis for holding platforms responsible. But more is needed. For example, online Safety online in the UK can be strengthened by clearly recognizing climate disinformation as a form of harmful content. Social Media Platforms are publishers and should be accountable for hate talking and dealing with their platforms with unidentified polls that give an error impression of grass support.
We also need school leaders to ensure that reading media and climate climate is taught by hand, so next generation is equipped with lies and actions. And we encourage reporters and advance the reporting of the evidence of evidence of climate policies, not only politics surrounding them.
Disinformation develops when trust is broken. Finally, disinformation fighting is not just a matter of public relations, it is part of public leadership. We must rebuild the foundations of trust. That means listening to communities, saying head concerns, and showing by moving that climate policy can improve lives today, not only decades from now.
The fight against the climate disinformation has taken momentum. The Presidency of the COP30 in Brazil and the UN that makes the Infigurity Information with one’s most priority to the incoming summit of Belém. Now it’s time for towns and national governments together to lead.
Just as the last 10 years of climate action is made of pair Approval, the next decade can explain by how we protect the information systems where our democracy depends. In order to do this we need to prove to all the action we make is worth it. The cities in which confidence is built.
