Thursday, 21 November:
Climate Activism Heats Up in Final Days of COP29
8:30 AM: Global Activists Call Out Countries’ Missing Climate Ambition, Shining A Light On Silence Around NDC Climate Pledges
1:00 PM: Hundreds of Activists Take Over Space to Demand Polluters Pay
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, 21 November
Contact:
Alix Vanwaetermeulen | Glasgow Actions Team | alix@glasgowactions.com | Signal +43 6901021492
Baku, Azerbaijan—With two short days remaining in the United Nations’ COP29 climate conference, activists will carry out two unmissable actions inside the conference space highlighting concerns around climate pledges and making polluters pay.
First, at 8:30 AM local time, they will shine a light on the lack of ambition surrounding countries’ climate pledges by showcasing a giant “MISSING AMBITION” poster around the conference venue - displaying a cute cat named Ambition that only responds to 1.5°C. The reward for finding ambition: climate justice.
Then at 1:00 PM, huge crowds of delegates will take part in a live ‘game show’ with ‘oil and gas executives’ showing how polluters can pay: no more bad excuses.
8:30 AM: Activists Plaster COP29 with Calls to Find Missing Climate Ambition
WHERE: Zone B, Action location 2
WHEN: Thursday, 21 November 8:30 AM Baku time
VISUALS:
Gigantic ‘MISSING AMBITION’ poster, offering a reward: climate justice (mockup available by request)
Several smaller posters handed out to delegates
WHY: The action calls attention to Nationally Determined Contributions, which are pledges that individual countries make to reduce their Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Nations are required to update their NDCs by early 2025. Yet so far, it’s not been a big topic at COP29. Current NDCs are aligned with a planetary temperature increase of 2.7°C above pre-industrial levels, blowing the Paris climate target of 1.5C out of the water. Global north countries must step up and commit to strong and ambitious mitigation targets.
Organisations: 350.org, CAN international, CAN Europe, Glasgow Actions Team, Attac France, Pacific Climate Warriors
1:00 PM: Make Polluters Pay
WHERE: Inside the Blue Zone, zone C, action location 4
WHEN: Thursday, 21 November 1:00 PM Baku time
VISUALS:
Gigantic ‘PAY UP’ and ‘MAKE POLLUTERS PAY’ banners and signs
Gigantic ‘LOSS & DAMAGE FINANCE NOW’ banner
‘Fossil fuel profits’ money bag and ‘Loss & Damage Fund’ bucket
Giant ‘scale of justice’
‘Game show contestants’ shoveling money into the Loss & Damage Fund
Dancing, singing, and throwing ‘make polluters pay’ money
WHY: With just hours left of the negotiations, activists will occupy the conference space with a show that cannot be ignored. Activists will run an eye-catching show, including an interactive game where delegates are invited to shovel money from fossil fuel profits to the Loss & Damage Fund to help balance the literal ‘scales of climate justice’. Through performance, songs and chants, the message that money is not scarce but abundant, particularly by making the polluters pay up for their damages, will come loud and clear.
Organisations: Oxfam, Greenpeace, Make Polluters Pay Coalition, Tipping Points UK, CAN Europe and CAN international, Glasgow Actions Team, and many more
Spokespeople from a variety of social/global movements spanning the issues of climate, development, and international debt will be available for interviews throughout the week.
Photos will also be sent out after each event.
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About the Organizers
These actions are being organized by 350.org, CAN international, CAN Europe, Attac France, Pacific Climate Warriors, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, Stamp Out Poverty, Make Polluters Pay Coalition, Tipping Point UK, and the Glasgow Actions Team. For specific questions and to get in touch for interviews, email alix@glasgowactions.com
