📛Very concerning at #COP26: many attempts to push #falsesolutions in decision texts to set in stone distractions away from need for real action / fossil fuels phase out ...
Parties must resist these attempts in final hours of COP
See👇👇👇for specific refs Image
New ref. to scaling up CLEAN power generation: as intensive lobbying at EU level indicates, govs & biz have many ideas what this entails: nuclear, BECCS, gas...
this would be 1st ever ref to "clean" instead of "renewable" in a political UNFCCC decision (draft cover COP decision) Image
Weakening down of reference to phasing out of coal - suggesting that only "unabated" coal falls under scope of phase out = implicit support for CCS despite repeated failure (draft cover COP decision)... Image
Reference to net zero remains in draft text of cover decisions despite the alarming amount of evidence that many governments and big polluters are using net zero to delay policies / cover up absence of actions to phase out fossil fuels (in both draft CMA and COP decisions) ImageImage
language on restoration of ecosystems improved over night with deletion of undefined "Nature Based Solutions" +new ref. to enviro & social safeguards-but reference to indigenous peoples rights shld also be included to prevent land grabs (in both draft CMA and COP cover decisions) ImageImage
really concerning: very vague and open-ended language on removals in the decision on carbon trading / #Article6 - very nervous that this is an open door for the full Carbon Dioxide Removals technofixes (draft SBSTA conclusions on article 6.4) Image
in the context of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, a last ditch attempt to frame petroleum gas as a clean alternative to consumption of biomass... still in brackets (CMP decision on Guidance relating to the clean development mechanism) Image
#humanrights & climate risks associated with #Article6 decisions deserve separate thread (upcoming) but here is 1 example... there is no independent grievance mechanism to address any grievances which constitutes a breach of due process (draft decision on art6.4) Image

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13 Nov
🚨unpacking 3⃣crunch issues at #COP26🚨
Presidency shared new texts this morning but they clearly are just drafts & countries must continue to work until more meaningful/less harmful deal can be concluded!
See in🧵below 3 key issues: #LossAndDamage, #FossilFuels, #Article6
👇1/4 Image
2/🛢️on #fossilfuels: #COP26 ref. MUST be strengthened to become meaningful
➡️current wording gives get-out-of-jail-free card to coal extraction, exports, coking coal (=gift to 🇬🇧+🇦🇺)
➡️damaging qualifiers (unabated, inefficient)
➡️ref. to phase-out weakened into "efforts towards" Image
3/🌀on #LossAndDamage: we need step change in how world is responding
Time for justice is overdue!
draft #cop26 proposal of a new blahblahblah process is disgrace, 14 yrs after Parties agreed to talk about L&D (Bali).
Industrialised countries must support frontlines communities Image
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2 Nov
#COP26 is turning into most exclusive COP over the past decade.
Observers are barred for now from any access to entire negotiating area despite so many reassurances from @COP26 and @UNFCCC Sec.
Even first days of Copenhagen compare better.
Here comes a short thread with context
2/ there are many concerns but biggest is the restricted access to negotiating areas.
Leaders might require a safety zone but this time the entire negotiations are cordoned off. This is unprecedented.
We have only access to a climate fair, 1 supermarket & 2 restaurants
3/ Despite health concerns & very high costs, CSOs & indigenous peoples came from all continents to be heard
🔒But doors remain shut.
Telling Global South youth partners that best for now is to work from overpriced accommodation is literally heartbreaking
Read 4 tweets
8 Oct
Pay attention: after UN #HumanRights Council recognized with overwhelming majority right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment, #HRC48 is now focusing on next resolution: establishment of a UN Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights & #ClimateChange...
Proceedings in 🧵below
🇲🇭Marshall Islands: introduce the proposal for a new Special Rapporteur on behalf of core group supporting proposal (🇫🇯🇧🇸🇸🇩🇵🇾🇵🇦🇪🇺) and additional 27 co-sponsors: scale of climate harms on require stronger international response
...
🇬🇧UNITED KINGDOM: full support, links with #COP26, need for focus on discriminatory impacts & work in coordination with @SRenvironment
🇺🇿UZBEKISTAN: support for mandate from land locked perspective
🇳🇦NAMIBIA: creation of mandate long overdue. welcome future recommendations
...
Read 9 tweets
8 Oct
Vote on third amendment by Russia
Vote on 4th Russian amendment
Vote on 5th Russian Amendment
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8 Oct
📌#HRC48 now considering adoption of important resolution on the human rights of indigenous peoples
Next item will be consideration of historic HRC resolution recognizing the right to a #HealthyEnvironment4All
Tune in now to follow live: ▶️media.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k…
Draft resolution is introduced by @CataDevandas on behalf of 🇨🇷🇲🇻🇲🇦🇸🇮🇨🇭, resolution is sponsored by 4⃣6⃣ States. Describes benefits expected and the massive support behind this proposal: #TheTimeIsNow
Indicates amendments made to draft text to secure broadest consensus...
Brazilian amendments withdrawn: these amendments sought to strengthen references to principles of international environmental law in a truncated manner.
Oral amendment expected to address this in a more balanced manner
Hoping for 🇧🇷support for resolution as a result...
Read 11 tweets
7 Oct
ℹ️Short explanation on process & stakes for universal recognition by 🇺🇳UN #HumanRights Council Session #HRC48 of right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
After more than 18 months of consultations, the resolution will be put forward tomorrow by 🇨🇷🇲🇻🇲🇦🇸🇮🇨🇭 (👏for leadership)
1/6
Recognizing the right to a safe, clean, healthy & sustainable environment wld enable not only tackling the ecological crises upon us but also promoting enviro justice.
We know the benefits of such a recognition: it has been documented at the national level across the world.
2/5
First on rationale: universal recognition of this right wld enable UN Human Rights framework to reflect state of law in vast majority of nations & regional frameworks. Currently UN lags behind, failing to mobilize political focus & resources as needed
The recognition wld help
3/5
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