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Nov. 9, 2022
Contacts:

Adrien Salazar, [email protected], +1-408-348-3941 (WhatsApp)

Bineshi Albert, [email protected] +1- 505-350-0851

Tamra Gilbertson, [email protected] +1-865-443-1337

US FRONTLINE DELEGATES AT COP27 RELEASE STATEMENT AGAINST US "ENERGY
TRANSITION ACCELERATOR" CARBON TRADING PROGRAM

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SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT - Today, United States Special Climate Envoy John
Kerry announced the launch of a new U.S. carbon trading scheme, the "Energy
Transition Accelerator" which is nothing more than another attempt to
obfuscate the US’s historic responsibility in creating the climate
crisis. Instead of taking responsibility and paying climate reparations to
the Global South and those most impacted by the climate crisis, the US has
decided to promote another market-based program that aims to generate
private capital through carbon credits for energy sector transition in
developing countries. This will only continue to encourage polluters to pay
to pollute rather than curbing greenhouse gas emissions at the source.
Kerry announced the initiative at a panel session at the U.S. Center at the
UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A
leaked outline [3] of the initiative identifies criteria for buyers of the
proposed carbon credits, and deployment of funds aimed to begin by 2028.

Delegates from the It Takes Roots delegation to COP27, made up of 60
frontline activists from the Climate Justice Alliance [4], Grassroots
Global Justice Alliance [5], Indigenous Environmental Network [6],
Indigenous Climate Action [7], Just Transition Alliance [8] and The Black
Hive at Movement for Black Lives [9] representing impacted communities
called out the initiative as more of the same business-as-usual false
climate solution.

Representatives from It Takes Roots responded with the following:

“Today John Kerry said ‘the single greatest barrier to real climate
action has been the absence of money dedicated to the transition.’
Actually the U.S.’s historic position of obstruction of climate progress
for years has been one of the greatest barriers to advance real climate
solutions. The Energy Transition Accelerator is simply a new veneer on the
same old market-based carbon credit schemes that have never reduced
emissions at the source. For years private sector polluters have misled the
public with carbon trading smoke and mirrors. But we know carbon credits
have never worked and only enable polluting industries to continue to
pollute. The U.S. must own up to its responsibility for climate crisis and
pay what is owed from decades of polluting our shared environmental
commons.” said Adrien Salazar, Policy Director of Grassroots Global
Justice Alliance.

“Biden’s plan for an energy transition will certainly accelerate
climate change and cause more violence to Indigenous and frontline
communities the world over. Even after UN General Secretary António
Guterres slammed on-going greenwash at a press conference [10]yesterday,
the U.S. carbon credit scheme for carbon capture and storage as well as
other false solutions will prolong the climate crisis with a financial
mechanism ultimately aimed to silence the global community from holding the
US accountable. Real funding in the form of direct grants [11], Indigenous
sovereignty and scaling up disaster relief programs would be a better way
for the U.S. to reconcile decades of climate inequality,” said Tamra
Gilbertson, Climate Justice Program Coordinator, Indigenous Environmental
Network.

Ozawa Bineshi Albert of the Climate Justice Alliance, “With this
announcement, it seems that the U.S. is again saying our priority in
solving the climate crisis is first and foremost the market, not the needs
of the people or planet. Corporate profits cannot be the driver in solving
climate change; we’ve seen that approach for decades and it has failed.
Now is the time for community-led solutions that leave no one behind, not
more false solutions that don’t actually stop emissions at their source
or address the pollution frontline communities face every day.”

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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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