The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)
While much of the focus of COP29 in Baku rightfully centers debates over the quantum and quality of any New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), very little attention is being given to what could be the true legacy of Baku: the deliberate dismantling of the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement structures for any legal accountability of developed countries to provide finance and technology to developing countries.
Paris in 2015 was the site of the first Great Escape from any accountability for greenhouse gas emissions by establishing the bottom-up system of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that almost a decade later has left the world drifting dangerously off course from limiting warming to 1.5C and instead hurtling toward 3-4C.
Climate justice advocates warn COP29 could culminate a decade-long effort to consolidate freedom for countries who got rich first by burning fossil fuels from their climate finance obligations: the Great Escape II.
Join us, as members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice break down the details of the ways in which this escape has been cleverly engineered by both subtle diplomacy and brutish bullying of the Global North countries.
When: Friday, 22 November | 10:30am
Where: Press Conference – Natavan, Area D / WATCH LIVE
Who:
- Meena Raman, Third World Network
- Mariana Paoli, Christian Aid
- Maureen Santos, FASE
- Moderator: Rachitaa Gupta, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice