BONN, GERMANY — International environmental and climate justice leaders representing impacted, frontline communities and grassroots organizations will be holding a press conference regarding the United States, other big polluting countries, and corporations for their investments in fossil fuels and false climate solutions, and obstruction of just and equitable climate action at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) inter-sessional meeting. The press conference will be webcast and recorded.
WHO: Peniel Ibe — Member, The Black Hive at Movement for Black Lives
Adrien Salazar — Policy Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Tamra Gilbertson — Climate Justice Program Coordinator, Indigenous Environmental Network
Thomas Joseph — Hupa, Karuk, Paiute-Shoshone, Carbon Pricing Educator, Indigenous Environmental Network
Juan Pablo Gutierrez — Yukpa, Human Rights Defender, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC)
WHAT: Press Conference at SB58, United Nations Climate Change Conference
WHEN: Friday, June 09, 2023
11:00 am CEST / 5:00 am EST
WHERE: Room Nairobi 4, World Conference Center, Bonn, Germany
BACKGROUND:
The 58th meeting of the Supervisory Body of the UNFCCC (SB58) this week has included a multitude of technical discussions to implement the mechanisms of the Paris Agreement to achieve the temperature goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Among key elements, countries are negotiating the implementation of a global carbon pricing and offset system outlined under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
While Global North countries like the United States position to influence key elements of the debate at SB58, including discussions on the global stocktake, Article 6, and loss and damage, they are also opening the door for expanded fossil fuel production and false climate solutions at home and abroad. The debate in Article 6 continues in relation to how or if carbon dioxide removals (CDR), that includes practices and technologies that can harm communities, will be included in Article 6.4. At the same time, with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., new streams of funding were created via increased subsidies for oil and gas corporations to continue to pollute, standing counter to the United States’ promises of reducing emissions.
The leaders speaking at the press conference from the Bonn climate meeting represent It Takes Roots, a delegation of grassroots organizations and networks in the United States, including Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, Just Transition Alliance, Movement 4 Black Lives Black Hive, and others. This press conference will discuss the role of the U.S. at the SB58, outline some of the key overlapping elements taking place at the conference, and look ahead to the upcoming COP 28. These speakers have participated as official UNFCCC Observers in key meetings, including negotiations on Article 6, the Loss and Damage Fund, a Just Transition, and other items on the SB58 agenda.
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