Dear Friend,

The last round of the U.N. climate talks, which ended late last month, was a travesty of injustice and a concerted attempt by polluting countries and corporations to run out the clock on climate action. The very first day kicked off with dangerous and loophole-ridden rules on carbon markets getting rammed through before any official negotiations could take place, despite protests from civil society and multiple Global South governments and mounting evidence that these schemes do not reduce emissions. And the talks ended without the Global North paying up for their climate debt and doing their fair share, with more paltry outcomes being gavelled through without consensus, and despite multiple governments objecting. These unjust decisions amount to a death sentence for millions around the globe.

And while these outcomes are undeniably tragic, they are also predictable. This is the outcome of a process that allowed nearly 1,800 fossil fuel lobbyists to infiltrate the talks¹, and wealthy, powerful Global North governments like the U.S., E.U., and U.K. to bully and intimidate anyone that stands in the way of profits².

The lack of meaningful action by governments at these climate talks makes our campaigning even more urgent, and the need for a strong climate justice movement more needed than ever. And your support is crucial if climate justice is going to be a possibility moving forward. Will you rise to the challenge and give during our Challenge Corporate Power Match Campaign, happening now?

When you give right now, a generous group of donors who share your commitment to challenging corporate power has pledged to double all gifts made before December 31, up to $100,000. Don’t miss this opportunity to triple your impact. Donate now.

Despite the disastrous failure by Global North governments like the United States to do their fair share, we must not stop, and we will not concede. Because even, and especially when, such reckless injustice is on display, it matters that we are there, with allies from around the globe, making sure this injustice does not go unchallenged. And it mattered that hundreds of thousands of people like you spoke up. Here are just a few of the things you helped make possible during the climate talks:

• The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition released research that exposed just how many Big Polluters had been officially admitted to the climate talks: nearly 1800 in all. Alongside KBPO partners we staged a day of action and sent thousands of emails to the U.N. Secretary-General asking for his support for strong policies to keep Big Polluters from attending climate talks in the future. And that message reached far and wide, with extensive media coverage from more than 2,000 articles in the Associated Press and many other media outlets in 92 languages.
• Climate justice advocates, youth from around the world, human rights activists, Palestinian activists, and members of the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition joined forces to throughout the U.N. climate talks and make sure our voices were heard, drawing attention to the linkages between fossil fuels and violence like the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
• We co-hosted an official side event with several of our allies focused on the real solutions we have to address the climate crisis that are rooted in equity, gender justice, and Indigenous peoples’ rights, not corporate-driven distractions.

We truly can’t do this work without you. And that’s why a generous group of donors is doubling any gifts made to our Challenge Corporate Power Match Campaign before December 31. Give right now and your support will go twice as far in powering our climate campaign and the growing movement to kick Big Polluters out of the climate talks.

There is still so much at stake, and there is still so much more to do, especially with a new Trump administration on its way in the door that will try to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement again and make it significantly more difficult to address the climate crisis domestically. But no matter who is in the White House, we will continue to show up and insist that the voices of the people who are most impacted by the climate crisis, not the corporations who caused and continue to exacerbate it, should be the ones making decisions about the global climate policy.