Heading back down to day 5 of #BonnClimateConference the walk up the Rhine, into a warm Easterly wind is stunning. This afternoon will see a Friday’s for Future (@GretaThunberg) protest from around 4.30pm
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of joining a group of young climate Activists here for the intersessionals meeting (#MidCop) who were preparing banners for use in the March which will begin in the HofGarten outside the university in the heart of Bonn.
A new idea being floated at this year’s #BonnClimateConference is a « Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation treaty the purpose of which (as I understand it) is to prevent fossil fuel colonisation around the globe by banning fossil fuel companies from entering/exploring any new… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is because the arrival of fossil fuel companies is associated not only with environmental degradation and corruption but also with horrific human degradation, including conflict, murder, displacement of populations, and collapses in life expectancy.
The poster child for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Inside the #BonnClimateConference conference there has been a fairly continuous stream of protest actions targeting Fossil Fuel companies. This one yesterday was particularly loud.
The UNFCCC process is from what I have seen over three meetings permissive of such activity -… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The fact a CEO of a colossal Fossil Fuel Corp. Sultan Al-Jaber,of the UAE’s ADNOC, is the incoming COP28 president is probably a significant factor in increasing the intensity of activist concerns.
/ends
@threadreaderapp unroll
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.