Thread by @fossiltreaty

Join our 🇸🇪#Stockholm50 #PreSummit closing plenary:

@alexraf, Global diretor of @fossilfueltreaty and @MaryMoeonoKolio, Pacific Climate Warriors sharing the main ideas on the fossil fuel world we want to build together: fossilfueltreaty.org/livestream

1/ @alexraf: We’ve heard across all of the panels that the risks of the FF industry are not only risks to our climate goals,we’ve heard about the ways that the FF industry risks our reliance with nature from communities in the Amazon facing continuing logic of the colonizers

2/ @alexraf: the risk of climate extraction is not only to the local community, it’s also to the overall structure of our political economy, and our culture.

3/ @alexraf: we have seen across the world states organize themselves around the extraction #fossilfuels. But extraction has not led to greater dignity or prosperity. Extraction has led to dispossession, centralisation of power and control and corruption of political systems

4/ @alexraf: However, we have also seen that there is much hope in frontline resistance and resilience.

5/ Yesterday, @UNEP released its Recommendations from Informal Working Groups. Although it is not yet clear what format the #Stockholm50 Chair’s summary will take and how similar it will be, the references to #fossilfuels are stronger than we’ve seen in previous iterations.

6/ They identify:
1. the threat of fossil fuels
2. the need to phase out equitably
3. the need for a #JustTransition to support fossil fuel dependent developing countries
4. that the @UN should support this through multilateral processes #FossilFuelTreaty

7/ The challenge now is to ensure that these clear references to the need to end the fossil fuel remain in the final text of #Stockholm50 conference 💪🏽

8/ @MaryMoeonoKolio: Tired as we may be, we do not have the luxury of fatigue, we have flown 36+ hours to be here with you on this side of the world, so want to say that the work we have to do in the coming days, is crucial for our communities.

9/ @MaryMoeonoKolio: today on the 1 of June is the 60th anniversary of Samoa’s independence. 60 years ago my island home defeated an empire and gave its freedom. We in the Pacific have been fighting for freedom for a long time - except now we can’t fight this alone!

10/ The #FossilFuelTreaty must be the way forward & complement the #ParisAgreement by cutting off supply and accelerating a #JustTransition

11/ The same systems that got us here - capitalism, and colonialism, will not get us out of this crisis. We are not driven out of fear but moved by love.

#FossilFuelTreaty #PreSummit #Stockholm50