DCJ PRESS RELEASE: BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 18 NOV 24 – ‘The 2024 Civil Society Equity Review: Fair shares, finance, transformation’ report launched by Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice challenges the poisonous consequences of obfuscation, delay and inaction by Global-North governments on climate negotiations highlighting that ‘the key thread running through this history that these negotiations cannot ignore – as the negotiations grind on, so do the emissions.’ In its 10th year of publication, almost 350 organisations from across the world have endorsed the analyses, findings and recommendations of the report.
The report presents a fair share assessment of NDC’s mitigation targets followed by a review of climate finance requirements and their sources. The authors propose that breaking the power of the fossil-fuel industry, while an absolutely necessary component of any possible climate strategy, is not enough and there is need for broader systemic changes if we are to stabilise the climate and address the polycrisis that big polluters have pushed our worlds into.
“The Global North’s negotiators are refusing to engage with numbers of this scale, and by doing so are playing a very dangerous game. In this refusal, they imagine themselves realists, but they are in fact refusing to engage with numbers that have real empirical bases, and by so doing are endangering the UNFCCC regime and, indeed, the entire multilateral system, not to mention any remaining possibility of a stable climate and all that depends on it. True realism lies in the recognition that we actually have the money to save ourselves, and that the reallocation and redistribution of that money is now an existential necessity.” – 2024 Civil Society Equity Review.
Developed countries appear to have abandoned Global efforts on preventing
a total climate collapse
COP29 in Baku, the so-called “Finance COP”, risks becoming a bankrupt COP as developed nations demonstrate that they have the money to fund genocide, subsidise big polluters, expand oil and gas production and fund false solutions but no public money for climate finance. As we enter the second week of COP29, at the end of a year marked by devastating wildfires, floods, heatwaves and preventable climate and geopolitical disasters, we are witnessing a failure of international cooperation embodied in the Paris Agreement.
Global North governments are turning their backs on the Global South on all critical fronts: creating pathways for equitable global cooperation, the New Collective Quantified Goal, finance and technological transfer for a Just Transition and divestment from fossil fuel investments including preventing false solutions like carbon markets from taking hold of climate finance. We are left with the Global South, disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and least responsible for it, dealing with disastrous impacts on communities and ecosystems.
Join us as members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice RING THE ALARM on the potential failure of COP 29 to deliver on key mandates that can lead the world out of the polycrisis that we are facing.
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