#COP27: In the wee hours of this morning, @COP27P released a new, lengthy, draft decision text.
The cover decision is the COP's political signal to the world in response to the #ClimateCrisis.
👉unfccc.int/documents/6241…👈
Spoiler alert: it's NOT good.
A 🧵 with our takeaways👇
The cover decision is the COP's political signal to the world in response to the #ClimateCrisis.
👉unfccc.int/documents/6241…👈
Spoiler alert: it's NOT good.
A 🧵 with our takeaways👇
A draft dropped around 06:30 local time and it has ballooned from 2 pages to 20, an unusual choice (and it is a choice) by the @COP27p with 36 hours left, making it FAR harder for civil society to have a voice in influencing the final decision.
Ironically (not really 😱)the text includes the 1.5C target & references to science but then doesn't follow what experts & academics have been saying for years:
#FossilFuels are the biggest threat to 1.5C & ALL fossil fuels must be phased out rapidly to address the #ClimateCrisis
#FossilFuels are the biggest threat to 1.5C & ALL fossil fuels must be phased out rapidly to address the #ClimateCrisis
The new #COP27 draft text:
❌ Fails to mention oil & gas or recognize the need for the equitable phaseout of ALL #FossilFuels
❌Doesn’t end fossil fuel expansion
❌ Repeats the weak Glasgow text on “phasedown of unabated coal” & waters down language on fossil fuel subsidies.
❌ Fails to mention oil & gas or recognize the need for the equitable phaseout of ALL #FossilFuels
❌Doesn’t end fossil fuel expansion
❌ Repeats the weak Glasgow text on “phasedown of unabated coal” & waters down language on fossil fuel subsidies.
In brief: NO progress has been made to build on the #GlasgowPact & move toward a fast just & equitable energy transition.
Instead ‘weasel words’ are out in full force weakening last year’s text & ignoring calls to include the phaseout of ALL fossil fuels.
Instead ‘weasel words’ are out in full force weakening last year’s text & ignoring calls to include the phaseout of ALL fossil fuels.
https://twitter.com/ciel_tweets/status/1459585147297316865
The half-good? The text finally adds more content on renewable energy potential, but in calling for use of “all” energy technologies invites continued reliance on fossil fuels.
A reminder? We cannot fight climate change unless we rapidly #PhaseOutFossils.
ciel.org/news/global-le…
A reminder? We cannot fight climate change unless we rapidly #PhaseOutFossils.
ciel.org/news/global-le…
Parties at #COP27 MUST commit to a full unqualified phase-out of ALL #FossilFuels, naming oil, gas & coal, without loopholes or exceptions opening the door to unproven & risky technofixes that delay the transition and harm #HumanRights.
✊ Nothing less is acceptable ✊
✊ Nothing less is acceptable ✊
On #HumanRights the draft text:
✅Includes the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. This text MUST stay in
❌Does NOT recognize #IndigenousPeopleS as a collective, instead it speaks about indigenous people
❌MUST stress States' human rights obligations in relation to the #GST.
✅Includes the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. This text MUST stay in
❌Does NOT recognize #IndigenousPeopleS as a collective, instead it speaks about indigenous people
❌MUST stress States' human rights obligations in relation to the #GST.
There is a placeholder on what the text on #LossAndDamage will look like as wealthy & polluting countries are still using blocking tactics to avoid their responsibility to #PayUp4LossAndDamage.
TODAY: Join us at 5.30pm in Room Luxor or online to hear from CIEL's @duycks & @NikkiReisch, @ESCRNet's @joie_chowdhury & @350's @ninteretse more about the state of play, latest developments & perspectives on what would make #COP27 a success or failure.
https://twitter.com/ciel_tweets/status/1592933459156402178
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