🚨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
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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"
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
4/ 🔃💰on #Article6 / #carbon trading:
🕳️serious loopholes remain, for instance with regards to welcoming "carry over" of junk credits - further diminishing #ParisAgreement ambition
⚖️ref. to international #HumanRights standards / incl. FPIC of #IndigenousPeoples still missing
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📛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
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)
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)...
#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
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
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🇬🇧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
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📌#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...
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.
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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
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