Hi John -
COP29 — the most important climate talks of the year — just kicked off a few days ago. With Trump’s vows to undo the climate progress the U.S. has made in the last four years, we need other countries like the UK and the European Union to step up and lead.
But instead of agreeing to an international climate finance goal that would help everyone swap fossil fuels for renewables and fund loss and damage at this crucial moment, rich countries are playing the blame game and arguing about who should pay.
They need to step up.
On other climate issues, the UK and the EU want to lead. But they’ll only step up on the finance goal if they hear from people like you, John. Can you help build global pressure on the UK and EU to pay their fair share and take bold climate action?
This improved climate goal is one of the biggest opportunities to stop the worst impacts of climate change. If world leaders agree to it at COP29, we could help poorer countries make the transition away from fossil fuels.
Regardless of who is in power in the U.S., countries in the Global South still need money to transition away from fossil fuels. If the U.S. won’t step up because of politics, we must direct our energy to other world leaders who will listen. That means putting an immense amount of public pressure on the EU and the UK to act.
Instead of fighting about who should pay what and continuing to fund fossil fuels, the UK and the EU must take the lead internationally and help get rich countries to pay up.
It will take 2 minutes, and it could help stop these talks from breaking down.
Big polluter countries like the U.S., EU and UK played a big part in heating our planet by pumping pollution from coal, oil and gas into our atmosphere. And they got rich from it at the expense of poorer countries through colonization.
We’ve influenced these crucial climate talks before — last year we helped get leaders to agree to a huge renewable energy target and to phase out fossil fuels. But that was a joint effort. It was Indigenous People, frontline communities, and climate activists, like you, holding demonstrations as they walked into meetings. Policy experts and our communications team holding press briefings and crafting press releases calling decision-makers out. And our digital team, sending thousands of emails directly to country leaders and negotiators’ inboxes.
We can do it again. Will you use your voice, John?
With hope,
JL, Senior Policy Analyst for 350.org, watching
COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan from the U.S.
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