As we sit in the now nearly empty halls of COP28 in Dubai, governments are locked up in rooms, secretly negotiating texts that will either protect millions of lives or effectively sign the death warrant for so many around the world\u2014communities of color, Indigenous Peoples, frontline and local communities, small peasant farmers, youth, and women. We are shut out, silenced, and left in the dark, even though it is many of our communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis that will be most directly impacted by what those in these halls do, or do not, deliver.<\/p>\n
But we know enough from what we have witnessed play out over the past two weeks during this round of UN climate talks to guess what is underfoot. And we know enough from having attended 28 COPs, all of which have failed to deliver the action needed to curb global emissions to Real Zero and implement a just transition along with the needed climate finance. We know enough, because we travel from around the world every year to stand for justice and to resist, while those in power, the political elite, and polluting corporations use this process to orchestrate their \u2018get out of jail free\u2019 card.<\/p>\n
COP28 is in overtime, but we are here to say\u2014time\u2019s up.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up to spend hours upon hours \u201ctaking stock\u201d when we know we are grotesquely off track and nowhere near the mark.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up to deliver the fast, fair, funded, false solutions-free fossil fuel phase out\u2014of all fossil fuels\u2014alongside the needed finance and technology for implementation, and without the use of adjectives like \u2018unabated\u2019 that mask the intent to actually ramp up fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up to announce the long overdue delivery of climate finance that those on the frontlines are owed. Finance that is public, community-controlled, and in line with each government\u2019s fair share of climate action. There\u2019s no point having ambition and setting lofty targets without a means for implementation for the Global South.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up for Global North governments like the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Norway, Japan, and Australia to cease their climate bullying while proclaiming themselves climate champions, and to stop denying doing their fair share of climate action as the actors that are overwhelmingly responsible for the climate crisis.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up to reject dangerous distractions and false solutions that are unproven, risky, do not meaningfully reduce emissions, cause great harm, and delay the needed end to the fossil fuel age. No more carbon markets, offsets, geo-engineering, nature-based solutions, nuclear, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen\u2014all of which continue to enable the extractivist, racist, colonial, capitalist system that has perpetuated the climate crisis.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up to finally enact just transitions that meet the urgent needs of the Global South and respects workers rights. A just transition that does not take into account historical responsibilities means nothing.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up for Big Polluters, including the fossil fuel industry and industrial agriculture, to no longer be given the pen to write the rules of climate action, or the power to bankroll these talks and manipulate what happens here. We can no longer allow this process to be poisoned from the inside with Big Polluters\u2019 profit and greed-driven motive.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up on the complicit silence of the world while not far from Dubai, children, women, elderly, and men are being murdered by heinous acts of crimes against humanity, enabled by the same Global North actors that are here blocking every meaningful outcome these talks could and must deliver. We are over having to shout reminders that there is no climate justice without human rights, and no climate justice on occupied land.<\/p>\n
There is no more time for delaying and stalling. There is now only time for acting\u2014urgently, fairly, and justly. <\/b><\/p>\n
The words \u201cfossil fuels\u201d in a text are meaningless if the rest of those pages are riddled with loopholes that not only enable but exacerbate the era of fossil fuels. Climate action is weakened if those who are most responsible are not held to account to lead by example. A phaseout is useless without the tools needed to actually achieve it. Climate action is pointless if it condemns billions to death and destruction.<\/p>\n
The Global North as perpetrators of the climate crisis are painting themselves as the victims trying to deliver a package here in Dubai. But what good is a package of false solutions, empty finance, and meaningless promises? COP28, now in overtime, risks setting a death trap for communities around the world.<\/p>\n
Climate justice now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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From the undersigned organizations:<\/p>\n
ActionAid International<\/p>\n
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur\u2022Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South<\/p>\n
Alliance Nationale de lutte contre la Faim et la Malnutrition ACFM Niger<\/p>\n
Artivistnetwork.org<\/p>\n
Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)<\/p>\n
Association Nigerienne des Scouts de l\u2019Environnement ANSEN<\/p>\n
Biofuelwatch<\/p>\n
Casa Socio-Environmental Fund \u2022 Fundo Casa Socioambiental Brasil<\/p>\n
Climate Watch Thailand<\/p>\n
Climate Emergency Fund<\/p>\n
Climate Justice Alliance<\/p>\n
Colectivo VientoSur (Chile)<\/p>\n
Connected Advocacy for Empowerment and Youth Development Initiative<\/p>\n
Corporate Accountability<\/p>\n
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa<\/p>\n
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)<\/p>\n
Debt Justice UK<\/p>\n
Debt Observatory in Globalisation (ODG) (Barcelona)<\/p>\n
[Earth]<\/p>\n
EcoEquity<\/p>\n
Ecologistas en Acci\u00f3n (Spain)<\/p>\n
Emerger Fondo Sociambiental Colombia<\/p>\n
Entertainment & Culture Foundation<\/p>\n
ETC Group<\/p>\n
Fondo Acci\u00f3n Solidaria, A.C M\u00e9xico<\/p>\n
Fondo \u00d1eque Ecuador<\/p>\n
Fondo Tierra Viva Centro Am\u00e9rica<\/p>\n
Fondo Socioambiental Semilla Bol\u00edvia<\/p>\n
Friends of the Earth International<\/p>\n
Friends of the Earth U.S.<\/p>\n
Fridays for Future Spain – Juventud x Clima<\/p>\n
Fridays for Future USA<\/p>\n
Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Grupo Esquel Brasil<\/p>\n
Gaia Coalition Network<\/p>\n
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)<\/p>\n
Global Forest Coalition<\/p>\n
Global Justice Now<\/p>\n
Grupo Ambientalista da Bahia<\/p>\n
Help Initiative for Social Justice and Humanitarian Development<\/p>\n
Hivos<\/p>\n
IBON International<\/p>\n
Indigenous Climate Action<\/p>\n
Indigenous Environmental Network<\/p>\n
Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)<\/p>\n
International Student Environmental Coalition<\/p>\n
ISPN – Instituto Sociedade, Popula\u00e7\u00e3o e Natureza-Brasil<\/p>\n
Konsorsium Pendukung Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan (KPSHK)<\/p>\n
Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Program-NTFP-EP Asia<\/p>\n
Oil Change International<\/p>\n
Oil Watch Africa<\/p>\n
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP)<\/p>\n
PFC Family Office<\/p>\n
Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Clim\u00e1tico (Bolivia)<\/p>\n
Reacci\u00f3n Clim\u00e1tica (Bolivia)<\/p>\n
Red Comunidades Rurales\/Rural Communities Network Argentina<\/p>\n
RedTailed Hawk Collective<\/p>\n
Re:wild Your Campus<\/p>\n
Samdhana Institute SE Asia<\/p>\n
Pud\u00fa<\/p>\n
The Zetkin Collective<\/p>\n
Third World Network<\/p>\n
TierrActiva Peru (TAP)<\/p>\n
Viernes por el Futuro Per\u00fa<\/p>\n
UKYCC<\/p>\n
U.S. Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN)<\/p>\n
War on Want<\/p>\n
WhatNext?<\/p>\n
Women Donors Network<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)<\/p>\n
World Animal Protection<\/p>\n
Zero Hour<\/p>\n
350 C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/p>\n
350.org<\/p>\n
7 Directions of Service<\/p>\n
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