We helped Lobsang last year -- can you help do it again and make sure
Tibet has a voice at the world's most important climate summit?
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[ [link removed] ]Lobsang Yangtso marching in the streets of Glasgow to demand for
climate action at last year's climate summit, COP26
John,
Lobsang Yangtso escaped from Tibet by climbing over the Himalayas when she
was just 9 years old.
Today, she's an environment and climate crisis expert with a Ph.D. And
she's terrified about what is happening in her Tibetan homeland, where ice
is melting 3x faster than anywhere else on the planet. As home to a
glacier that provides water for 1 in every 5 people on Earth...we should
all be terrified.
Lobsang wants to sound the alarm at the critical COP27 climate conference
in Egypt, just a week away. But the high cost of attending means she and
other front-line activists and experts are scrambling to ensure they can
take part -- leaving the fossil fuel lobby to control the narrative and
stop real action.
We can change that -- if thousands of us chip in, our community can send
Lobsang to meet our leaders...and fund campaigning for real climate impact
at the conference and beyond. Can you chip in to help?
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The world’s biggest oil and gas companies will descend on COP27 in an
all-out offensive to protect their profits. Their plan is to exploit the
EU energy crisis to lock in gas as a path forward instead of actual clean
energy. And if they succeed, it will mean we continue down our currently
catastrophic pathway to 2.5+ degrees of heating.
Imagine what it would mean for the next generation.
The good news is we know what we have to do to win: centre the stories of
those on the front lines of climate disaster to show world leaders that
the cost of inaction is just too high.
But a combination of travel costs and visa complexities makes it very
tough for the people we most need at the table to get there.
Lobsang knows exactly what is happening to the environment in Tibet and
has witnessed firsthand the impact of the climate crisis in this fragile
and vital land.
If we’re going to have a shot at taking on the massive oil and gas lobby,
we need voices like Lobsang’s at COP27. Can you give just a small amount
to send Lobsang and her team to Egypt?
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The threats we face are a matter of life or death. If we don’t slam the
brakes on runaway climate change, our future is extreme weather, food
shortages, and millions displaced. The next few months will decide if we
succeed or fail, but to win we need to centre the voices of the
communities with everything at stake.
The SumOfUs community has come together time and time again to stand in
solidarity with communities risking everything to change the world -- from
the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon to Bangladeshi labour organisers to
communities across the globe taking on corporate power. We even helped
Lobsang attend last year's climate conference. Let’s do it again to save
the planet we all call home.
Thanks for all that you do,
Allison, Sondhya and the SumOfUs team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Cop27 climate summit: window for avoiding catastrophe is closing
fast, The Guardian. 30 October 2022.
[ [link removed] ]Why are the glaciers in southeast Tibet melting so fast?, Phys.org. 08
September 2022.
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