At 1pm CEST in roughly 2.5 hours @GretaThunberg will return to the UNFCCC process for the first time in three years and hold a Press Conference at #BonnClimateConference.
The first press conference this morning has relatively few attendees. Chinese Youth are talking up the need for immediate and accelerating urgent action.
There is a one and a half hour gap in the schedule before @GretaThunberg’s appearance at 1pm - & helpfully given the level of interest in Greta’s presence there are overflow internal broadcasts planned within the conference venue.
Next up the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)
It appears to be entirely in Spanish, we shall see. This is fairly unusual for press conferences at UNFCCC events but is a great move in the lead up to @GretaThunberg’s return to the process today. The panel includes @alexraf Alex Rafalowicz from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And here is the information pack on the Fossil Fuel Non Prolifération Treaty. The suggested text is immediately below.
The Treaty proposal has a lot of momentum it seems and is founded in a perceived need to break the UNFCCC cycle of Fossil Fuel Lobby capture of the COP/UNFCCC… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Full text - English Translation of the Swiss Tribunal finding about @fifa’s Qatar World Cup Carbon Offsets - it found the offsets were not credible. >> drive.google.com/file/d/1EvQ4U6…
“Poor Tackling: Yellow card for 2022 FIFA World Cup’s carbon neutrality claim”
The full investigation report is here detailing why the claimed 3.6 million tonnes in carbon offsets claimed by @fifa for the Qatar World Cup are bogus. >> drive.google.com/file/d/1zgB7Ga…
This Press Conference is scheduled for a full hour. The return of @GretaThunberg to inside the UNFCCC meetings after boycotting the inside of COP26 on Glasgow is an important milestone in the struggle to address fossil fuel emissions.
Thé first speaker Tina Stege is from Marshall Islands. She talked about the debilitating results of climate change for her islands which are technically part of the United States.
The « Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty » - launched in Sweden at a « Stockholm+50 » @UNEP 50th Anniversary event last June is having a side event today at #BonnClimateConference
Audience interaction starts the session
2 questions:
1/ Stand up if you see enough progress in fossil fuel phaseout in your country (1 person)
2/ Stand up if you think there is insufficient action in your country. (Most of the Room)
Alex Rafalowicz is a spokesperson for the Fossil Fuel Treaty effort and provided a brief introduction to the treaty which you see below in three parts. 1/3
Namibia and Germany colonialism - #BonnClimateConference Activist action advisory THREAD:
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Fridays For Future Windhoek (FFFWHK) in collaboration with Fridays For Future Bonn (FFFBONN) will be a staging a peaceful Protest on Wednesday 14/06/2023 at 18h30 at the Poppelsdorf… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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A live performance where the audience can participate will take place with the aim of working on collective trauma healing for both Namibians and German People.
Climate Justice is about social Justice. It is a painful chapter for the decadents of the Ovaherero and Nama… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Speakers:
Jakapita Kandanga has been with FFFWHK since 2018 and is a direct descendant of a Genocide survivor or related to others who did not make it. Her grandmother told her stories that we might have read as outsiders.
Heading back down to day 5 of #BonnClimateConference the walk up the Rhine, into a warm Easterly wind is stunning. This afternoon will see a Friday’s for Future (@GretaThunberg) protest from around 4.30pm
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of joining a group of young climate Activists here for the intersessionals meeting (#MidCop) who were preparing banners for use in the March which will begin in the HofGarten outside the university in the heart of Bonn.
A new idea being floated at this year’s #BonnClimateConference is a « Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation treaty the purpose of which (as I understand it) is to prevent fossil fuel colonisation around the globe by banning fossil fuel companies from entering/exploring any new… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…