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Latin American leaders and the road towards COP30 in Belem

DCJ PRESS RELEASE:  

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 18 NOV 24

Climate activists from Latin America and the Caribbean have set their demands towards the second week of COP29, focusing on the damage that the approval of Article 6.4 can cause in the UNFCCC process, and the low expectations regarding the political will to provide funds, especially for loss and damage, as well emissions reductions in the agriculture sector.

Despite the uncertain outcome of negotiations in Baku, particularly on carbon markets and false solutions, Latin America is already building the road towards Belem next year, where the People’s Summit is expected to put pressure on the Brazilian COP30 Presidency and reduce the impact on communities of the climate crisis.

“The People”s Summit towards COP 30 in Belem will be an opportunity for social movements and organizations to strengthen the global movement for climate justice, land rights and for socioenvironmental transformation. Calling an autonomous and popular convergence process with protagonism of Amazon, LAC and Global South organizations, our goal is to mobilize and pressure for real climate solutions and popular just transition”.

Maureen Santos, FASE

“Over the past decade, powerful neoliberal governments, transnational agribusinesses, and multinational corporations have been pushing market-based and technology-driven solutions. They continue to burn down our house and we know no one else is coming for us, but ourselves. We promote and practice Agroecology as the systemic solution to achieve Food Sovereignty and Social Justice producing 70 percent of the food worldwide in approximately 30 percent of the available arable land. In La Vía Campesina we commit to continue fulfilling the sacred responsibility of feeding the world, sustaining life while we defend and steward the natural commons.”

Jesús Vázquez Negrón, La Vía Campesina Internacional (Puerto Rico)

“Agro-businesses associated with unsustainable livestock farming are a major cause of environmental and social injustices. It must be a central issue for climate action, as the increasing corporate power of big meat and dairy in these negotiations, participating in parallel multi-stakeholder initiatives, allows for the consolidation of false solutions and narratives.”

Andrea Echeverri, Global Forest Coalition (Colombia)

“The polluter countries must pay a fine and not a fee to continue polluting. A fine has to do with the recognition of ecological debt. Fine is impunity and has to do with all that has being negotiated in this and former COPs”

Ivonne Yánez, Acción Ecológica (Ecuador)

“Damage and loss is a priority for our communities. Providing financial resources must be included in the commitments adopted at COP29. We do not accept agreements that violate the historical obligations of developed countries, which are the cause of this crisis. Negotiations cannot go beyond the legal framework; we have the right to have the damage repaired. The NCQG must provide the funds for damage and loss.”

Adrián Martínez, La Ruta del Clima

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Developed countries display lack of political will in supporting Global efforts on preventing a total climate collapse  

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.  

Contact Us

Julian, DCJ, +306941437285, [email protected]

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We need finance for Just Transition, not just words! 

MEDIA ADVISORY WHEN: Saturday, November 18, 01:30 PM Baku time (GMT+4)WHERE: Location 4, Blue Zone. Spokespeople will be available for interviews nearby.WHAT: On Monday, November 18, civil society members and activists will gather to call out to world leaders to commit to a strong climate finance deal this year that enables the Global South to implement a Just Transition. We don’t just need words, we need public finance for a Just Transition!The Just Transition Working Program (JTWP) is the most promising opportunity for the world to prevent an imminent climate collapse given its wide scope, which was secured by the collective efforts of trade unions, social movements, CSO’s, and developing countries.However, Northern countries are seeking to further evade their climate obligations by limiting the scope of the JTWP and passing the burden of financing the transition to the private sector. They want developing countries to either implement a just transition on their own or further enable Northern-dominated and profit-driven multinational corporations and international financial institutions to lead the transition.This action comes at the start of week two of COP29, where the stakes are high for securing financial commitments to support the global transition away from fossil fuels and protect countries from worsening climate impacts. Here is the list of demands from Global South led civil society groups.  WHO: Activists from multiple UNFCCC constituencies and civil society groups from across the world.QUOTE SHEET HEREContacts:Isabel Rodrigo | Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development | [email protected] | +63 926 734 5712Esthappen S | Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice | [email protected] | +919820918910

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Developed countries appear to have abandoned Global efforts on preventing a total Climate collapse 

MEDIA ADVISORY

COP29 Press Conference – The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) 

  

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.  

When: Monday 18th November | 09:30-10:00 hs (Baku)

Where: Press Conference – Natavan, Area D / WATCH LIVE

Who:

  • Lidy Nacpil, The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
  • Kirtana Chandrasekharan, Friends of the Earth International
  • Victor Menotti, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice 
  • Rachitaa Gupta, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice  

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Latin American climate justice leaders at COP29

The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) 

Media Advisory

Climate activists from Latin America and the Caribbean critically assess the first week of COP29 and demand that the governments of the region take positions that are equal to the gravity of the crisis.

Latin American leaders from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ), Climate Action Network (CAN) and the Women and Gender (WGC) constituency will refer to the first results that the climate talks have yielded in the first days and will present their expectations for the coming week.

They will also present some of the main impacts that climate change is generating in the region and will evaluate the various aspects of the ongoing negotiations such as climate finance and carbon markets, fossil fuel phase out, the just transition and gender equity.

Join us as Latin American members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice address critical dynamics of the negotiations at COP29.

When: Saturday 16th November | 10:30am

Where: Press Conference – Natavan, Area D / WATCH LIVE

Who:

  • Paloma Jofré, Earth in Brackets [Earth]
  • Juan Carlos Alarcón, Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Climático 
  • Gina Cortés, Women and Gender Constituency
  • Osver Polo, Climate Action Network Latin America
  • Eduardo Giesen, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice

Julian, DCJ, +306941437285, [email protected]

Interventions

Sharm el-Sheikh joint work on implementation of climate action on agriculture and food security

My name is Natalia Figueiredo. I’m from World Animal Protection, based in Brazil. delivering this statement on behalf of one of the ENGOs, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice DCJ:

We are pleased that the online portal is open to observers and urge considerations to make it more accessible – including more translations and ensuring quick uploads onto the portal. We also would like to urge the joint work to add a moderation function to the portal so voices and solutions are equally represented, and conflict of interests prevented.

Civil societies should not just be observers but active participants in this process, as our networks represent frontline groups, we have both the expertise and legitimacy for this. We are looking forward to using the portal and sharing case studies of small food producers, with gendered approaches and community-led solutions. These solutions have been created, tested, and implemented by frontline groups relying on agriculture for their livelihoods. We urge the joint work to make these solutions central to the workshops 

As we speak, the climate crisis is devastatingly impacting the global south. In my country, Brazil, we continue to suffer from its impacts, with fires in the Cerrado, droughts in the Amazon, and floods in big cities, which have had disastrous consequences for our lives. 

We urgently need agreements on the portal’s modality, including measures to avoid conflicts of interest, so we can move on to meaningful conversations about the workshops in the lead-up to COP30 in Belem.

Interventions

Intervention: COP Presidency Townhall

I am Rachitaa Gupta from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. I voluntarily disclose that I have no ties to the fossil fuel industry or other emission intensive industries and no conflict of interest and invite others to also disclose the same as they speak. We want to highlight the new report that has just come out that shows there are nearly 1800 fossil fuel lobbyists at this COP and we know when they come here it is only to influence and prioritise their profit rather than people’s interests. 

We cannot ignore the contrast between shrinking of meaningful space for rightsholder constituencies on one hand, and the vastly increasing power and influence of the polluting interests like the fossil fuel lobbyists over this process on the other hand. We seek your support in constituting a meaningful observer engagement process within UNFCCC.

We are all gathered to be part of discussions and negotiations that have serious implications on our lives and communities in the global south. Yet we come here year after year with no meaningful progress or solutions for our communities back at home who are at the frontline of this crisis yet least responsible for it.

We all know that this is a crucial COP since it is called “finance COP”. We hope to see ambitious public finance commitments from the parties, especially the developed countries who have the historical responsibility. We condemn the priorities of the countries around the world, especially rich countries choosing to fund and fuel genocides, war, and conflict around the world rather than funding climate action and justice. These issues are deeply interlinked- there is no climate justice on occupied land, and these same actors are perpetuating both the climate crisis and the genocide and systemic violence happening around the world. We raise the demand of 5 trillion USD per year to be delivered as need based with a core of public grant-based finance through non-debt creating mechanisms.

It is imperative that the UAE dialogue focus on finance and not be diluted to cover everything and thus nothing.

We insist on more accountability from the rich countries to deliver on the commitments that they make here to make sure they are not just lip service but actually deliver on the urgent climate action. As you know Data compiled by the UNFCCC Secretariat shows that developed countries have fallen far short of their formal pledges to reduce deadly greenhouse gas emissions, fulfilling only about one-quarter of the cuts urged by scientists.

We are deeply concerned about the undemocratic process the COP Presidency took to push the Supervisory Body of Article 6.4 text through without proper party-driven process. The guidance in the CMA room on A6.4 has been rushed with parties voicing concerns just this morning about the lack of proper process and we are seriously concerned about the precedent that has been set here.

Carbon markets are not real climate finance. These dangerous distractions of false solutions and speculative and untested technologies of geoengineering are like a get out of jail free card for polluters without real emission cuts that need to happen urgently and immediately. These false solutions have a history of continuing the horrific violation of the Indigenous Peoples’ rights and human rights of our communities and need to stop.

Lastly, we would like to reiterate that rich countries need to step up to their historical responsibility of supporting global south countries with finance and technology. Defund genocide, fund climate justice.

Interventions

Intervention: Deputy Executive Secretary

Deputy Executive Secretary

I am Rachitaa Gupta from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. I voluntarily disclose that I have no ties to the fossil fuel industry or other emission intensive industries and no conflict of interest and invite others to also disclose the same as they speak. We want to highlight the new report that has just come out that shows there are nearly 1800 fossil fuel lobbyists at this COP and we know when they come here it is only to influence and prioritise their profit rather than people’s interests. We cannot ignore the contrast between shrinking of meaningful space for rightsholder constituencies on one hand, and the vastly increasing power and influence of the polluting interests like the fossil fuel lobbyists over this process on the other hand. For us, enhancing observer engagement requires ensuring that that engagement does not come at the cost of introducing conflicting interests that risk the integrity of the very UNFCCC objectives and process, and that displace the lived experience and expertise of rights holders. We call on your support to convene a public, formal way for observers to engage in dedicated, constructive, deep dialogue with parties on this topic, and to take all possible measures to safeguard against the undue influence of polluting interests. 

We are all gathered to be part of discussions and negotiations that have serious implications on our lives and communities in the global south. Yet we gather here year after year with no meaningful progress or solutions for our communities back at home who are at the frontline of this crisis yet least responsible for it.

Access to UNFCCC is a serious concern for us. We appreciate the new steps taken by the UNFCCC but they are not nearly enough. Food 

We reiterate all the points made by our comrades in the rights based constituencies. We all know that this is a crucial COP since it is called “finance COP”. We hope to see ambitious public finance commitments from the parties, especially the developed countries who have the historical responsibility. We condemn the priorities of the countries around the world, especially rich countries choosing to fund and fuel genocides, war, and conflict around the world rather than funding climate action and justice. These issues are deeply interlinked- there is no climate justice on occupied land, and these same actors are perpetuating both the climate crisis and the genocide and systemic violence happening around the world.

We are all gathered to be part of discussions and negotiations that have serious implications on our lives and communities in the global south. Yet we gather here year after year with no meaningful progress or solutions for our communities back at home who are at the frontline of this crisis yet least responsible for it. We insist on more accountability from the rich countries to deliver on the commitments that they make here year after year. As you know Data compiled by the UNFCCC Secretariat shows that developed countries have fallen far short of their formal pledges to reduce deadly greenhouse gas emissions, fulfilling only about one-quarter of the cuts urged by scientists. The pushing of article 6.4 in the opening plenary and the agenda is deeply problematic since it .  is also a strong attempt to bring in false solutions like carbon markets and speculative and untested technologies of geoengineering that are used as dangerous distractions from real emission cuts that need to happen urgently and immediately.

  1. We strongly echo the demands from our comrades in ENGO CAN, WGC, YOUNGO, TUNGO, and IPO. Access to the UNFCCC and global climate policy space is critical for civil society. Collectively we represent millions of people in the Global South who are at the frontline of this crisis and are increasingly being left behind within this process. We cannot ignore the contrast between shrinking of meaningful space for rightsholder constituencies on one hand, and the vastly increasing power and influence of the polluting interests like the fossil fuel lobbyists over this process on the other hand. For us, enhancing observer engagement requires ensuring that that engagement does not come at the cost of introducing conflicting interests that risk the integrity of the very UNFCCC objectives and process, and that displace the lived experience and expertise of rights holders. We call on your support to convene a public, formal way for observers to engage in dedicated, constructive, deep dialogue with parties on this topic, and to take all possible measures to safeguard against the undue influence of polluting interests. 
  2. And we call on you to strengthen the disclosure requirements instituted last year, in time for strengthened measures to come into place for COP29 registration. Specifically, we request that all observer participants be required to disclose who is funding their participation in talks before receiving theri registration. We strongly believe this lies within the remit of the secretariat, and is the type of bold action that is needed now. A type of boldness that has also been echoed by the UN Secretary General in his comments earlier this week. The world is looking to you to give a strong signal that this hall of climate action is not overrun with the very actors that have caused the climate crisis. 
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 New report released at COP29 calls out Damage from Global North’s Refusal to do their Fair Share and Pay Up on Climate Finance, calls for system Change

DCJ PRESS RELEASE: BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 15 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. 

Contact Us

Julian, DCJ, +306941437285, [email protected]

COP29

New report released at COP29 calls out Damage from Global North’s Refusal to do their Fair Share and Pay Up on Climate Finance, calls for system Change

DCJ PRESS RELEASE:  

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 15 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.