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Nov. 7, 2022
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US DELEGATION OF FRONTLINE ACTIVISTS DEMAND COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS,
REPARATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS BE CENTRAL TO GLOBAL CLIMATE COMMITMENTS AT
COP27

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 60 frontline leaders from six North
American-based climate justice organizations are heading to Egypt for COP27
November 4, as a part of the “It Takes Roots Alliance” delegation. This
delegation includes the Climate Justice Alliance [3], Grassroots Global
Justice Alliance [4], Indigenous Environmental Network [5], Indigenous
Climate Action [6], Just Transition Alliance [7] and The Black Hive at
Movement for Black Lives [8]. The delegation aims to ensure the solutions
of those most impacted in the U.S. are heard and that our governments take
responsibility for their role in our current climate emergency at home and
in the Global South. In part, this can be done by adhering to binding
climate agreements and not obstructing the process in allegiance to a dying
fossil fuel industry.

DELEGATES AVAILABLE TO SPEAK WITH REPORTERS INCLUDE:

TOM GOOLDTOOTH, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
(Climate Finance / Climate Reparations)

ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER, Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action
(Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

OZAWA BINESHI ALBERT, Co-Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance
(False Solutions)

JOSÉ BRAVO, Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance (False Solutions)

REVEREND MICHAEL MALCOM, Executive Director, Alabama Interfaith Power and
Light, representing Black Hive at Movement for Black Lives (Climate
Reparations, Loss and Damage)

SIWATU SALAMA-RA, Demilitarization Organizer Detroit, Grassroots Global
Justice Alliance (Human Rights, Climate Reparations)

LOOKBOOK OF FRONTLINE DELEGATES DURING COP27 HERE [9].

For 27 years, the United Nations has brought governments, academics,
scientists and corporations together to address climate change with little
success in actually halting the climate crisis or guaranteeing that the
largest polluters actually abide by global agreements. Every year,
frontline communities have been present, demanding that significant and
binding climate agreements based on science and the wisdom of Indigenous
communities around the world be passed and adhered to. The delegates
continue to intervene against false “solutions,” including pollution
trading, offset, bioenergy and geoengineering in the implementation of the
Paris Agreement, schemes that only further accelerate the climate crisis.

This year, community leaders and environmental justice experts will be on
the ground in Egypt to demand that COP27, which is already being coined the
climate finance COP, will actually address climate reparations as a
solution that begins to solve the loss and damage frontline communities and
Global South nation-states face around the globe.

Specifically, THESE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEADERS ARE CALLING ON THEIR
GOVERNMENTS TO MAKE A FIRM COMMITMENT TO: 

* CLIMATE REPARATIONS AND COMPENSATION FOR PAST HARMS THAT HAVE CAUSED
IRREVERSIBLE IMPACTS TO NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS, MAN-MADE INFRASTRUCTURE,
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, AND PEOPLE, AROUND THE WORLD,

* CANCELLATION OF DEBT, 

* FREE AND OPEN ACCESS TO PATENT-FREE SHARING OF GREEN TECHNOLOGY WITH THE
GLOBAL SOUTH, AND 

* COMMITTING FUNDS DIRECTLY BACK TO COMMUNITIES, INSTEAD OF DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONS AND CORPORATIONS WHO ONLY FURTHER EXACERBATE HARM IN THE MOST
VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES. 

These funds can support community-led solutions that leave no one behind
rather than false ones and must be at the core of projects that actually
mitigate and end harmful practices propped up by big-industry looking to
make a buck rather than actually solving the climate crisis. Market-based
mechanisms [10] and techno-fixes such as carbon capture and storage and
risky geoengineering [11] experiments that are unproven to actually work
are not viable pathways forward to actually stopping future extreme weather
events, climate displacement, and climate change in general.

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_Climate Justice Alliance is a member-led organization of over 80 urban and
rural frontline communities, organizations and support networks in the
climate justice movement. We work to build real solutions to the climate
crisis through building local, living, regenerative economies while pushing
back against false promises from corporate controlled interests._

Climate Justice Alliance

1960A University Ave
Berkeley, CA, 94704
United States


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