Thread by @fossiltreaty

☮️Join leading peace experts on the connection between #FossilFuels and wars:

🇪🇺@SaschaGabizon @WECF_INT
🇺🇦Svitlana Romanko #StandWithUkraine
🇨🇲Sylvie Ndongmo @WILPF
🇺🇸Joni Seager from Bentley University
🇸🇪@BeaFihn from @nuclearban

#PreSummit: fossilfueltreaty.org/livestream

1/ Svitlana Romanko #StandWithUkraine: The war in Ukraine is not another war. Russia is a threat with high #FossilFuel resources that could be weaponized & used also against other countries.

The #FossilFuelTreaty provides the missing mechanism to phase-out fossil fuel and HOPE!

2/ Sylvie Ndongmo @WILPF, Cameroon: first of all, i am not in #Stockholm50 in person bec I could not get a visa. I was requested to travel to RDC or Nigeria to get a visa which is another example of inequalities and colonial power.

3/ Sylvie Ndongmo @WILPF, Cameroon: the country is highly affected by the fight for #FossilFuel resources to which the government responds with violent military repression, only increasing displacement and poverty

4/ Joni Seager from Bentley University: I would like to put on the table the reason underlining #fossilfuels: "petroromance"

This industry is highly masculine: wealth is male captured, CEO are men, as well as workers. Fossil Fuels are.

5/ Joni Seager: the attachment to fossil fuels is called a "compensatory practice" that allow men to claim patriarchal authority. It is rooted in capitalism and militarism.

6/ @BeaFihn from @nuclearban: today we can wonder if international law are still relevant. I think they are. It does not always work but international laws and treaties DO change behaviors massively on the long-term.

7/ @BeaFihn: Treaties are relevant bec:
1️they increase standards:the most progressive countries will set the pace & rules
2 they grow political pressure and make it harder for political to keep with their blablabla
3 they are key tool to catalyze mobilization
#FossilFuelTreaty

8/ @BeaFihn: all these issues are intersectional. It is not one movement or one treaty that is going to fix the problem. We need to work together and take advantage of that intersectionality and create movement around many solutions #FossilFuelTreaty