In November, world leaders will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th COP climate summit. We cannot simply wait for them to solve the urgent challenges we face. Now is the time to campaign for climate justice at community level and bring the critical issues into focus.
We will come together on 16th November in an international co-ordinated day of action
- To sound the alarm! The public need to be aware that climate breakdown is not a thing of the future – it’s happening now
- To connect the dots between climate change, inequality and war
- To demand meaningful climate action that incorporates social justice and collective liberation
- To show the importance of community and the power of collective action.
All forms of oppression are intertwined, and achieving equitable solutions for climate change requires collective action that addresses issues related to economic, racial, gender, social, health justice, and workers’ rights.
We welcome everyone to join us on 16th November! We will be gathering at various points around Portsmouth with the Portsmouth Climate Choir. Our plan is to gather in Guildhall Square at 11 am, hear some songs and a couple of short talks, then move on to Commercial Road for about 11.30 to join with the Palestine Solidarity protestors outside Barclays Bank. Then we’ll move on to Cascades about 12.15 and sing there
You could also help make placards and banners for the event at this session, organised by Turning Tides on 9th November. Please let us know you are coming. If you can bring card and sticks, that would be great.
To find out more see the Climate Justice Coalition site . They are asking us to share a petition. Please sign and share as mauch as you can. You can see it here.
Our demands
No new fossil fuels — no new finance public or private, no new approvals, licenses, permits, or extensions. The provision of sufficient, consensual climate funding to realise this commitment everywhere.
A rapid, just and equitable phase out of existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5C temperature limit and a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Treaty, to ensure that each country does its part.
New commitments for international cooperation to drastically scale up climate finance delivery and technology transfers to ensure renewable energy access, economic diversification plans, and Just Transition processes so that every country and community can phase out fossil fuels.
Stop greenwashing and claiming that offsets, CCS or geo-engineering are solutions to the climate crisis.
Hold polluters responsible for the damage they’ve caused and make sure it’s coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and for local rehabilitation, remediation and transition.
End fossil fuel corporate capture. No to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling climate talks or undermining the global response to climate change.
End the genocide in Gaza now
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