CIEL experts will be at @UNFCCC Climate Conference #COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh🇪🇬.
They'll be joining the negotiations, monitoring the ambition gap between what States have promised & what is necessary to address the #ClimateEmergency.
The 27th Conference of the Parties to the @UNFCCC, #COP27, is taking place as climate impacts are raging across the globe, from unprecedented floods in Pakistan to continued drought across Africa, record destruction by forest fires in Europe & intensified storms in North America.
The only way out is by acting urgently to keep warming below 1.5°C, centering people in responses to the climate emergency 🫂 & equitably addressing its mounting impacts ⚖️.
Leaders at #COP27 must:
🏭 Rapidly phase out #FossilFuels,
🕵️ Reject speculative techno-fixes & far-off promises of mid-century “#NetZero” without accountability,
💸 Provide #Remedy for those people whose rights are already being harmed & whose lives face existential threats.
CIEL experts will be closely following #COP27 negotiations, monitoring States’ ambition in pursuing action necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C, including ending reliance on #FossilFuels, drastically reducing #Plastics production & curbing other drivers of the #ClimateEmergency.
CIEL staff will monitor negotiations to ensure that key outcomes are ambitious and compliant with States’ #HumanRights obligations, including the rights of #IndigenousPeoples.
Given the restrictions on public participation at @COP26 and the Egyptian government’s history of shutting down protests & cracking down on dissent, @ciel_tweets will be paying particularly close attention to what happens before, during & after #COP27.
Next week CIEL's experts will be in Sharm El-Sheikh 🇪🇬 for the @UNFCCC Climate Conference (#COP27).
📢 BREAKING!
In a historic decision, the @UN General Assembly just adopted the resolution to universally recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!
This signals what we hope will be the beginning of a new era in rights-based environmental policy.
A thread 🧵👇
The adoption of the resolution to recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll arrives after:
🦸♂️ Decades of demands from civil society & Indigenous Peoples organizations,
🇺🇳 Recognition of the right to a healthy, clean, and sustainable environment by the @UN_HRC in October.
📌 #ClimateChange has been high on the agenda — from the presentation of @SRclimatechange's mapping report to the adoption of the annual resolution on climate & #HumanRights.
Her work has been instrumental in advancing a human rights-based approach to #ClimateAction: She stated that climate change is one of the greatest challenges to #HumanRights of our era.
2/4 - The presence of #Plastics in livestock could originate from the intentionally added #Microplastics in pesticides and fertilizers used to grow animal feed.
Like previous #IPCC Reports, this one demonstrates:
🚩#ClimateChange is a present emergency
🚩Each increment of warming accelerates the scale & severity of the crisis
🚩Phasing out ALL #FossilFuels is the quickest & most effective way to end #ClimateChaos. ciel.org/news/political…
#EscazúAgreement aims to ensure the rights of all people in Latin America & Caribbean to:
🌿 Have effective & timely access to information;
🌿 Meaningful participation in decision-making in matters that affect their lives & their environment, and
🌿 Access justice & #Remedy.
Three years ago, we joined partners around the world in releasing a landmark report that examined the impact of the full life cycle of plastic on health.
From extraction to refining, use to waste management, plastics pose a serious health whether people experience them through direct or environmental exposure.
Since then, the needle has only moved.
Here's just some of the developments:
In 2019, scientists announced that the average person eats *at least* 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity. theguardian.com/environment/20…