SpecialRapporteurs demand that States:
๐๐ข๏ธurgently step up mitigation in line w. equity โ incl. ending #FossilFuels expansion, regulating businesses & strengthening access to courts
๐งโ๐คโ๐ง๐include #HumanRights in #ClimateAction plans (ie NDCs) incl. effective redress mechanisms 2/5
๐ฆ๐establish a #LossAndDamage finance facility, & significantly step up funding for LnD
๐๐ฐfulfilling and going beyond the $100 billion annual
๐ฃ๏ธ๐๏ธallow for the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and civil society at all levels of the COP process 3/5
๐ฐ โง๏ธensure gender equality, rights of children, non-discrimination & racial justice in all climate policies
๐๏ธ๐ซถaddress human dignity in context of climate impacts โ incl. migration & displacement
โ๏ธโ๐พaddress racial injustice while tackling the climate and ecological crisis 4/5
๐ธ ๐คinclude children and youth representatives in their delegations to #COP27
๐ฎ๐ขrespect international standards when policing climate action protests and assemblies
๐งโ๐พ๐ฑtransition to agroecology to address gap in ambition and the need for resilience 5/5
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๐ฅ๐#COP27 barely started & recommendations are already adopted that would seriously undermine the integrity of the #ParisAgreement
Last night, the supervisory body on #carbonmarkets finalised recommendations regarding "removals"
3โฃ things to know about this outcome...
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2/7 decision adopted in middle of night makes clear that Supervisory Body is pressing forward opening the door for a wide range of โremovalsโ incl. engineering of the oceans to โoffsetโ emissions despite the existence of an international moratorium prohibiting this
3/7 Despite the multiple cases of #HumanRights violations resulting from previous market-based โoffsettingโ schemesโthe Supervisory Body suggest that enforcement of environmental and social safeguards shld remain a prerogative of host countryโthus making any safeguards toothless
๐โ๏ธPATHBREAKING CLIMATE JUSTICE WIN TODAY! The #UN Human Rights Committee finds that Australia violated its #humanrights obligations by failing to take adequate climate action and requests full remedy for impacted Torres Strait Islanders theguardian.com/australia-newsโฆ
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2-๐The case is particularly important in the context of an emerging groundswell of judicial victories for #ClimateJustice as it breaks new grounds with regards to the duty of the States to provide remedy in the context of climate-related #LossAndDamage
3-๐ฃ๏ธLet us celebrate the courage and boldness of plaintiffs and lawyers who brought their complaint to the UN after decades of inaction by the Australian government. This case will have ripple effects beyond what one can imagine today.
๐@SMarjanacCE@MferiaTinta@ClientEarth
๐จunpacking 3โฃcrunch issues at #COP26๐จ
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 in๐งตbelow 3 key issues: #LossAndDamage, #FossilFuels, #Article6
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2/๐ข๏ธon #fossilfuels: #COP26 ref. MUST be strengthened to become meaningful
โก๏ธcurrent wording gives get-out-of-jail-free card to coal extraction, exports, coking coal (=gift to ๐ฌ๐ง+๐ฆ๐บ)
โก๏ธdamaging qualifiers (unabated, inefficient)
โก๏ธref. to phase-out weakened into "efforts towards"
3/๐on #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
๐Very 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
See๐๐๐for 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.
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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
๐But 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 ๐งตbelow
๐ฒ๐ญMarshall Islands: introduce the proposal for a new Special Rapporteur on behalf of core group supporting proposal (๐ซ๐ฏ๐ง๐ธ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ต๐พ๐ต๐ฆ๐ช๐บ) and additional 27 co-sponsors: scale of climate harms on require stronger international response
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๐ฌ๐งUNITED KINGDOM: full support, links with #COP26, need for focus on discriminatory impacts & work in coordination with @SRenvironment
๐บ๐ฟUZBEKISTAN: support for mandate from land locked perspective
๐ณ๐ฆNAMIBIA: creation of mandate long overdue. welcome future recommendations
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