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Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, Mony!":1,"#A spotlight on Philip Morris International, transnational tobacco corporation that profits off of the leading preventable cause of death in the world.":1,"#Este informe analiza la influencia política de las corporaciones tabacaleras transnacionales en América Latina y el Caribe, con un enfoque ...":1,"#Este relatório analisa a influência política das corporações transnacionais do tabaco na América Latina e no Caribe, com foco nas ...":1,"#A influência política da indústria do tabaco: a erosão do Artigo 5.3 na América Latina e no Caribe":1,"#Archives: Tobacco":1,"#HK":1,"#Not in HK?":1,"#Eric Johnson, Author at Corporate Accountability":1,"#Sanyu Awori":1,"#enfrentaron a una violenta represión":1,"#Tagalog or Filipino":1,"#Not Anita? Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, Anita!":1,"#link":1,"#Photo credit: pingnews.com on Flickr (":1,"#, project coordinator, and Michél Legendre, former director of tobacco campaign.":1,"#This piece was co-authored by":1,"#b68cf6b0-b9db-467b-a0bc-014aaff301e3":1,"#An image of Corporate Accountability member Pierce Delahunt.":1,"#Pierce Delahunt discusses why he believes challenging privatization is so critical to building a better world for people.":1,"#Member spotlight: Pierce Delahunt":1,"#The collective can create change in a way that no single person can. As long as there have been abusive men at the helm, there have been women, trans, and nonbinary folks resisting and speaking up as they could.":1,"#The collective will always surprise us":1,"#May 28, 2026":1,"#Not Cecilia ? Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, Cecilia !":1,"#por impulsar la construcción de algunos de los centros de datos de IA más grandes de EE. UU., incluido el Proyecto Júpiter, un proyecto de 567 hectáreas en el desierto de Nuevo México. Estos enormes centros de datos consumen grandes cantidades de electricidad y agua, lo que ha provocado un aumento desorbitado en las facturas de electricidad locales, una sobrecarga en los recursos hídricos locales y un mayor riesgo de contaminación atmosférica y del agua.":1,"#Not velezcruzcecilia? Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, velezcruzcecilia!":1,"#Not caaie? Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, caaie!":1,"#Time Slider":1,"#(@patrickgaley)":1,"#— Patrick Galey":1,"#in Katowice, Poland, environmental campaigners from the Niger Delta in Nigeria said the region had become “hell on earth” because of Shell’s oil pollution and called for big polluters to be “kicked out of the COP”. More about this":1,"#were banned because they mentioned terms such as “dirty energy” and “pipelines”":1,"#Audio Player":1,"#Volume Slider":1,"#Mute":1,"#Play":1,"#Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.":1,"#Video Player":1,"#Corporate Accountability’s team of international organizers and experts is on the ground at COP24, the U.N. climate change negotiations happening December 3 – 14 in Katowice, Poland. At these critical talks, where countries from around the world are negotiating how the Paris Agreement will be implemented, Big Polluters are pulling out all the stops to ...":1,"#Polluters out, people in: Dispatches from the global climate talks in Poland - Corporate Accountability":1,"#COP24 People's Demands delivery":1,"#Check back here for updates from the ground over the next two weeks. COP24 runs from December 3 – December 14, 2018 in Katowice, Poland.":1,"#That’s exactly what our international team of bold climate campaigners is setting out to do in Poland — with the hundreds of thousands of people who make up the global corporate accountability and climate justice communities powering them forward.":1,"#But it’s equally clear: Our time is now. The low-lying Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu recently announced that it may sue the fossil fuel industry for climate damages. Crab fishermen in California and Oregon are suing 30 Big Polluters for compensation for their losses linked to climate change. And the global climate justice community is rallying around the People’s Demands. People all over the world are fired up like never before to take action to rein in Big Polluters and advance climate justice now.":1,"#Image Credit: Corporate Accountability":1,"#On the heels of a sobering report on the economic toll of climate change from 13 U.S. federal agencies came Poland’s announcement that the first official corporate sponsor of COP24 is the largest coking coal producer in the European Union. With people and the planet at stake, the fossil fuel industry is beating down the door to block progress at the U.N. climate talks. It’s never been clearer: Big Polluters have got to be kicked out for just climate policy to take hold. (Our statement here.)":1,"#And it couldn’t come at a more urgent time.":1,"#The roadmap laid out by the People’s Demands brings together demands that Global South and climate justice allies have been organizing around for years, alongside relatively newer campaign demands like our own call to kick Big Polluters out of climate policy. (You can find the full demands here.)":1,"#That’s some serious power!":1,"#As of this writing, more than 220,000 signatures from 129 countries have added their voices in support of the People’s Demands, along with nearly 300 organizations including groups as diverse as 350.org, Empower India, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth – Nigeria, Flint Rising, Rainforest Action Network, TierrActiva Peru, and many, many more. (And the numbers grow each day!) Even U.S.-based elected officials, like Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib, have joined the campaign. Together, allies from around the world have been strategizing how to take the People’s Demands into COP24 and make these the talks where we turn the tide toward climate justice.":1,"#Yes, it’s true: The People’s Demands have truly become a rallying cry for the climate justice movement on the eve of the climate talks.":1,"#— Corporate Accountability (@StopCorpAbuse) November 20, 2018":1,"#Add your name:
→ https://t.co/EamnQgf4s2#ClimateChange #ClimateJustice pic.twitter.com/FTmFDFMXb3":1,"#In only a few days #COP24 begins. There, governments will decide on how the Paris Agreement will be implemented. The #PeoplesDemands call on them to adopt what we all need: real, just climate solutions.":1,"#It’s official: Corporate Accountability’s climate team has just landed in Poland for COP24 of the global climate treaty. And with them is one of the most powerful movements of people yet calling for just climate policies, united behind the People’s Demands for Climate Justice.":1,"#As climate talks begin with Big Polluter sponsorship, voices for climate justice ring out front and center":1,"#People’s Demands become global rallying cry for climate justice on eve of COP24":1,"#You can read the full statement here":1,"#Both reports are grim. Their findings make the case for swift and major action to address climate change. …":1,"#Released just one month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned the world that we have just 12 years to radically cut emissions, this report is the latest clarion call for bold, urgent action. These reports warn of the literal disappearance of entire nations under rising seas, the prospect of widespread disease and of famine, and the decimation of entire industries that will profoundly destabilize the world economy.":1,"#The National Climate Assessment report, released last Friday is a stark and sobering warning for people in the United States. The report, issued by 13 U.S. government agencies, warns of the catastrophic impacts climate change will have on the U.S. economy, our health, environment, and our food supply. Despite being released by the White House, this report contradicts practically every stance the Trump administration has taken on climate change.":1,"#In response to the recent release of the U.S. National Climate Assessment report and Vanuatu’s announcement that it may become the first country to sue the fossil fuel industry over climate change, Corporate Accountability Executive Director Patti Lynn released the following statement (excerpt—read the full statement here):":1,"#In case you missed it: Executive Director Patti Lynn’s statement on the U.S. National Climate Assessment report, Vanuatu’s Big Polluter accountability announcement, and the People’s Demands on the eve of COP24":1,"#Here’s two of ace team getting our traditional send-off as they head to COP24.":1,"#Our team members are Poland bound! Thanks to our members, we have been able to put together a strategically well-rounded team of international organizers, policy experts, and communications professionals who will help further our campaign. And of course they will be closely supported by the rest of our entire organization. Where they go, we all go!":1,"#28 November, 2018":1,"#Our team members are heading to COP24!":1,"#India Logan Riley, from Te Ara Whatu & Mariana Porras from @FoEint Costa Rica speak to need for #cop24 to reject dangerous distractions like geoengineering & instead traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples, ecological restoration, and agroecology #peoplesdemands pic.twitter.com/fiVhe1P5CC":1,"#Before and After! Protest & Walk out from the US Dirty Energy Promotion Panel @ #COP24 in Poland.
Young people & community leaders on the frontlines of extraction take more than a mic from Trump & fossil fuel companies: #CommunitiesNotCorporations
Video: https://t.co/t8TtKY9v6o pic.twitter.com/qaioeMaUbO":1,"#We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, facing droughts, storms & ecosystem collapse of an unprecedented intensity. Yet leaders continue business as usual! Time to pull the emergency break, stop false solutions! #peoplesdemands #COP24 📷 @CJAOurPower https://t.co/HDqEVcWX2m pic.twitter.com/CIPCWYE4w6":1,"#Read more here.":1,"#“By closing spaces for voices of the people to come into global platforms like the COP, the profit-making exploitative industries and the states continue business as usual at the cost of the planet.”":1,"#In a statement, APWLD member Banamallika Choudhury, from India, warned: “This clamp down on civil society space and freedom of expressions is a sign of increasing influence of the profit earning actors who do not want to change the system of exploitation that is leading to climate change.":1,"#The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), a Thailand-based network of feminists and grassroots climate organizations, described the bill as “setting a dangerous precedent” and one that “undermines human rights and fundamental freedoms.”":1,"#Read more in EcoWatch about the Polish security crackdown and civil society’s response, including the following excerpt quoting our allies at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development:":1,"#Image Credit: Cezary P / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0":1,"#The Polish government has implemented a terrorism alert in the province of Poland where COP24 will begin next week, on the heels of an earlier bill passed this year to ban spontaneous protests in Katowice during the talks.":1,"#Civil society responds to Polish security crackdown: “a dangerous precedent”":1,"#Visibility like this is a critical component of how we build pressure on Big Polluters and the Global North governments that do their bidding — and how we empower champion Global South government delegates to kick Big Polluters out and advance climate justice. Check out Galey’s Twitter thread above, and if you’re on Twitter, help amplify it by liking and retweeting.":1,"#“Such sponsorship raises serious questions about what access and influence sponsorship buys and could risk calling into question the legitimacy of these talks before they even begin”":1,"#Sriram Madhusoodanan, deputy campaigns director at @StopCorpAbuse:":1,"#Another major @COP24 sponsor is PGE, a state-run energy firm that pressure group @sandbagorguk says is responsible for the 3rd most air-pollution related deaths in Europe https://t.co/cZbyTl5uWr pic.twitter.com/nfpOoE5TSg":1,"#And the biggest sponsor of UN climate talks is a coal company https://t.co/0q069F9d1Z":1,"#So the world’s leading climate scientists, which have warned we have 12 years to avert runaway #climatechange has said coal needs to stop, the science on this is extremely clear.":1,"#Just last month, the UN’s intergovernmental panel on #climatechange – 90 of the world’s leading scientists – said coal use must be reduced to between 0-2 percent of current levels https://t.co/JgqjYWuUze":1,"#— Patrick Galey🦖 (@patrickgaley) November 27, 2018":1,"#The first sponsor of the @COP24, the talks that will decide the future of our #climate, is a state-run coal company, which describes itself as “the European Union’s largest coking coal producer” https://t.co/W41GvGxesV":1,"#Patrick Galey is the global science and environment correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the world’s three largest news wire services. And he just tweeted (to his thousands of followers) about the coal and gas sponsors of COP24, quoting Corporate Accountability’s Sriram Madhusoodanan, who is on the ground at the talks.":1,"#29 November, 2018":1,"#Reporter exposes fossil fuel sponsors of COP24, quotes Corporate Accountability":1,"#Check out the full post at DeSmog Blog for more on the hot topics at COP24, and the ways people will be organizing to challenge Big Polluters’ and Global North governments’ business-as-usual.":1,"#But the champion Global South governments, climate justice organizations, and fierce climate campaigners gathering now in Poland aren’t going to let them get away with it.":1,"#As governments prepare to debate policies that will determine the fate of our planet, this article makes clear that Big Polluters and their front groups are lining up to influence the talks using everything in their bag of tricks: greenwashing, sponsorship, lobbying, and yes, even climate change denial. As Corporate Accountability’s Media Director Jesse Bragg says in DeSmog’s post, “Corporate sponsors, and direct interference in the negotiations, will be rampant as Big Polluters attempt to lock their agenda into the rulebook.” (He’s referring to what’s known as the “Paris rulebook,” or the policies that governments are negotiating at this COP that determine how the historic Paris Agreement will be implemented.)":1,"#Our friends at DeSmog Blog have put together an excellent run-down of topics to keep an eye on as COP24 heats up next week.":1,"#Image Credit: Climate campaigners protesting against corporate capture at COP21. Takver/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0":1,"#What to watch for as COP24 talks begin: corporate capture, conflicts of interest, and people power—oh my!":1,"#If you haven’t yet had a chance to join the People’s Demands, you can add your name here. Then, help spread the word on Facebook and Twitter.":1,"#Ensure developed countries honor their “Fair Shares” for largely fueling this crisis.":1,"#End corporate interference in and capture of the climate talks.":1,"#Honor climate finance obligations to developing countries.":1,"#Advance real solutions that are just, feasible, and essential.":1,"#Reject false solutions like carbon markets that are displacing real, people-first solutions to the climate crisis.":1,"#Keep fossil fuels in the ground.":1,"#Together, we’re demanding governments ensure that the final guidelines for implementing the Paris Agreement:":1,"#More than a quarter of a million signatures have been added to the People’s Demands for Climate Justice, on the eve of COP24 in Poland. These people come from 129 different countries, and join more than 300 organizations from all over the world who have endorsed the People’s Demands. Together, we are uniting to challenge Big Polluters’ interference in climate policy, and present the government delegates gathering in Poland with a roadmap for a just climate future.":1,"#People’s Demands for Climate Justice swell past quarter-million mark. (Have you added your name?)":1,"#Stay tuned for more on the impact this article continues to have on the ground. And in the meantime, please help it reach more people: Share our Facebook and Twitter posts.":1,"#Media coverage like this is critical for shifting and shaping the global narrative around the climate talks. This article is a powerful tool for giving delegates gathering in Poland the political cover they need to go toe-to-toe with the fossil fuel industry and demand the strongest possible policies for climate justice.":1,"#Corporate Accountability’s Media Director Jesse Bragg is quoted in the piece: “Every day we learn more about what big polluters continue to do to undermine climate policy, yet their trade associations are still free to stalk the halls at the UNFCCC.”":1,"#The story has been picked up by Yahoo! News, with more coverage rolling in. We expect the article to reach millions of people with our analysis: The piece not only lays bare Big Polluters’ interference at COP24; it also puts direct pressure on powerful Global North countries doing the industry’s bidding at the talks, and amplifies the broad coalition of Global South governments and allies like ActionAid International organizing to secure a strong conflict-of-interest policy that would kick Big Polluters out of the talks.":1,"#Image Credit: AFP/File / Darek Redos":1,"#Today, Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three biggest news wire services in the world, published a hard-hitting story exposing Big Polluters’ interference at the global climate treaty and quoting Corporate Accountability and our allies. The piece will have ripple effects within and outside of global climate talks just as they begin on Monday in Poland.":1,"#30 November, 2018":1,"#BREAKING: Big Polluters’ interference at climate talks exposed in global media":1,"#The conversation touched on the recently released U.S. climate report, what to watch for at COP24, how the People’s Demands are setting the bar for progress and climate justice at the talks — and the urgency of organizing for the policies that people and the planet need, not what merely seems possible.":1,"#Have a listen here or below:":1,"#Yesterday, Corporate Accountability’s Jesse Bragg and Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity were featured on California-based KPFA’s Terra Verde radio program, hosted by Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra.":1,"#1 December, 2018":1,"#Listen: Corporate Accountability and EcoEquity discuss COP24, the U.S. climate report, and the People’s Demands live on Terra Verde":1,"#Read the news story here.":1,"#As our Patti Lynn, Corporate Accountability’s executive director has said, “We need world governments to lead, not play political games.”":1,"#Let’s remember that the Trump administration’s own sobering report on the economic toll of climate change contradicts almost every position the administration has taken on climate change.":1,"#Also of note: The story highlights that G20 leaders meeting in Buenos Aires yesterday agreed to a final communique stating that the Paris Agreement was “irreversible” but also acknowledged the intention of the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.":1,"#“Developed nations led by the US will want to ignore their historic responsibilities and will say the world has changed. […] The question really is: how do you ensure that ambitious actions are done in an equitable way?”":1,"#Meena Raman of Third World Network (TWN), one of Corporate Accountability’s advisers, summarizes a central issue at the talks in this AFP article (reposted on Yahoo!):":1,"#As COP24 begins, Global South actors call on all governments—especially those that do the bidding of Big Polluters—to honor the promises made in the 2015 Paris Agreement.":1,"#3 December, 2018":1,"#As COP24 begins, Global South climate leaders call on countries to honor climate justice and equity commitments":1,"#— Corporate Accountability (@StopCorpAbuse) December 4, 2018":1,"#Polluters out, people in!#PeoplesDemands #COP24 pic.twitter.com/JjdK28Ethp":1,"#— DemandClimateJustice (@DClimateJustice) December 4, 2018":1,"#— SustainUS (@SustainUS) December 4, 2018":1,"#Join Phillip here: https://t.co/JYKHTSRklk pic.twitter.com/5QlKvkOs3C":1,"#Young people need more from #COP24.":1,"#Time is running out.":1,"#SustainUS youth delegate Phillip Brown unveils the #PeoplesDemands with over 50 representatives from global organizations who fighting for a more just and sustainable world.":1,"#— CEO (@corporateeurope) December 4, 2018":1,"#With #BigPolluters in the talks, we’re going to see false solutions like carbon markets, #REDD and #Geoengineering pushed through by rich countries – Sriram @StopCorpAbuse #COP24 #PollutersOut pic.twitter.com/CdJxT4xHWr":1,"#“People Not Polluters!” Governments esp developed countries must fulfil the Peoples Demands, urge #ClimateJustice advocates at an action inside #COP24. @FoEint‘s @mporritas spoke of community forest management as real solution to the #ClimateChange crisis. https://t.co/hK0MMYNSk0 pic.twitter.com/IPrqDajtqM":1,"#— UKYCC (@ukycc) December 4, 2018":1,"#“I am DONE with countries selling us false solutions” #PeoplesDemands #COP24 #ClimateActionNOW pic.twitter.com/69uyEUWLPF":1,"#— APMDD (@AsianPeoplesMvt) December 4, 2018":1,"#Only way to start #COP24 is to hear voices of people and put #peoplesdemands in the negotiations. pic.twitter.com/cIMwlXFGV9":1,"#The action brought together key members of the global climate justice movement centered around the People’s Demands for Climate Justice>, our collective worldwide call for real, just climate solutions. (Have you signed them yet?)":1,"#Watch the livestream of the entire action, thanks to our friends at Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD):":1,"#This morning, as government delegates filed into the conference hall for day 3 of the global climate talks at COP24, there was one thing they couldn’t miss: People representing communities from all around the world rallied to call on countries to advance true climate justice — not Big Polluters’ schemes.":1,"#The “only way to start COP24”: People’s Demands for Climate Justice ring out at climate talks’ entrance":1,"#Check back here for updates on media coverage. And if you haven’t yet, sign the People’s Demands for Climate Justice to help further the global movement for real, just solutions!":1,"#— Friends of the Earth (@FoEint) December 4, 2018":1,"##COP24: The elephant in room is corporate influence and participation. 25 years of demanding #ClimateJustice and not getting good solutions. Governments are not serving people, but corporations – they are failing to protect people and planet. Nathalie Rengifo from @StopCorpAbuse pic.twitter.com/K3FzcQIeo3":1,"#“People have the solutions, not Big Polluters. It’s time government heed our call and act for people, not the corporate bottom line.”
— Lidy Nacpil, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development":1,"#“I don’t think any of these demands will be possible if we do not address the elephant in the room: The influence and participation that corporations have in this place. […] Governments must live up to their responsibility to serve people, not corporations, but they are not. […] We see this because there are no rules in this space [at the UNFCCC climate talks] to limit the participation of corporations.”
— Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, Corporate Accountability":1,"#“Without real money for real action, the urgent transition the world needs to make will be impossible to achieve. The alternative was set out recently by the world’s leading scientists: rising temperatures that will leave many low-lying countries and cities to disappear under the sea, and threaten life for people in countries all over the world.”
— Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International":1,"#Real solutions need real support. If you can’t ensure our rights, our governance, and our initiatives, keep your hands off our territories and our forests. REDD+ is not conservation. Bioenergy is not alternative energy. Plantations are not forests. We will resist such false solutions, and struggle to advance real solutions will continue.”
— Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition.":1,"#The lands, territories, and forests where indigenous people, communities, and women are in the front lines, vulnerable to climate shocks, but resilient enough to respond with their own actions, using their customary practices, traditional wisdom, and knowledge. However, our rights, governance, conservation and restorations practices are not recognized and supported, since they neither bring credits, nor profits.":1,"#“Through the climate crisis, our nature, land, and forests have become business opportunities for bankers and corporations. 1.5 or 2 degrees are mere dangling carrots. The ongoing negotiations and ministerial declarations are shifting the focus away from the pathways to real solutions.":1,"#“We fight fossil fuels not just because it causes climate change, but because it also wrecks lives on the ground, and that’s what it’s done for centuries.”
— Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International.":1,"#Some comments of note from our panelists:":1,"#Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International
Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition
Lidy Nacpil, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (and one of our advisers)
Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, Corporate Accountability
Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International":1,"#The panel of experts came from many parts of the world. Each spoke to the importance of the demands, with Corporate Accountability’s Media Director Jesse Bragg moderating.":1,"#Watch the video of our joint press conference, streamed live this morning on the UNFCCC’s site below:":1,"#We called on all governments to put the People’s Demands at the heart of their climate negotiations. We must ensure that the roadmap for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement enshrines real, just solutions that put people first as they are embodied in the People’s Demands. We must make sure policymakers reject the dangerous schemes peddled by Big Polluters and the governments that do their bidding.":1,"#Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez of Corporate Accountability at the official press conference unveiling the People’s Demands for Climate Justice.":1,"#Leading voices in the global movement for climate justice, including our own, held an official UNFCCC press conference to unveil the People’s Demands for Climate Justice.":1,"#The global call by people for real, just climate solutions took center stage this morning at the UNFCCC COP24 talks. Literally.":1,"#4 December, 2018":1,"#People’s Demands for Climate Justice take center stage at UNFCCC climate talks":1,"#Find our statement here.":1,"#As a reminder, just days before the conference began in Katowice, the COP Presidency announced that a number of the meeting’s corporate sponsors would be from the coal, gas, and fossil fuel financing industries.":1,"#This new report on COP24’s corporate sponsors and accompanying infographic provides a stark illustration of how deeply Big Polluters have insinuated themselves into the international climate treaty talks. And it serves as a powerful tool for our government champions, Global South allies, and campaigners from around the world organizing in Poland to kick Big Polluters out and ensure governments heed the People’s Demands for Climate Justice.":1,"#As the negotiations in Poland heat up, Corporate Europe Observatory and Corporate Accountability just released a new report and a new infographic that pulls back the green façade on COP24’s Big Polluter sponsors.":1,"#Check out the latest way we’re ramping up major pressure on Big Polluters and the governments doing their bidding at COP24.":1,"#Just released! New report and infographic: The Big Polluters bankrolling COP24":1,"#Help amplify on Facebook and Twitter.":1,"#People are sporting People’s Demands buttons everywhere. And in every space, we and our allies are harnessing the People’s Demands to educate and organize delegates to advance the real solutions we need to solve the climate crisis — not Big Polluters’ schemes.":1,"#The event, combined with the drumbeat of pressure we’ve been building through our and our allies’ actions, press events, and media coverage (scroll for more!) is helping build major buzz in the negotiating halls at COP24.":1,"#— Marilyn Willmoth (@sassnotclassy) December 5, 2018":1,"#“There cannot be carbon colonists.” -Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network #COP24 #ClimateAction #kickbigpollutersout pic.twitter.com/Klaw08H2Rw":1,"#The audience, including government delegates and allies, joined us to hear climate leaders from around the globe discuss the opportunity countries have to forge a path for a truly just global response to climate change, the importance of protecting the negotiations from the fossil fuel industry, and the growing movement behind the People’s Demands for Climate Justice demanding just climate action now at COP24.":1,"#WATCH the event’s video livestream (click the “join the event” button):":1,"#Philip Jakpor, Environmental Rights Action, Friends of the Earth Nigeria":1,"#Sara Nyberg, PUSH Sverige":1,"#Trudi Zundel, ETC Group":1,"#Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network":1,"#Pascoe Sabido, Corporate Europe Observatory":1,"#Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, Corporate Accountability (Moderator)":1,"#This morning, jointly with Corporate Europe Observatory, Environmental Rights Action, Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ETC Group, Indigenous Environmental Network, and PUSH Sverige, we held a panel event at COP24 to point the path forward for climate justice instead of Big Polluters’ schemes. The event, “Fork in the road: Just transition and true climate action, or dangerous schemes and climate chaos?” was made up of an expert panel from allied organizations from throughout the world:":1,"#“Fork in the road” event points path toward climate justice at COP24":1,"#The toxic tour came on the heels of our panel event this morning on the path forward for climate justice at these negotiations, and was timed with the release of our new report and infographic exposing the corporate co-optation of COP24.":1,"#The informative and funny #ToxicTourCOP24 Twitter thread is here.":1,"#Watch the livestream of the toxic tour thanks to Gastivists:":1,"#Browsing the country pavilions at COP24, they exposed the many Global North countries’ pavilions that look more like a trade show for the fossil fuel industry than serious commitments to climate action.":1,"#— Corporate Accountability (@StopCorpAbuse) December 5, 2018":1,"#All aboard #ToxicTourCOP24! @CorporateEurope is leading us around all the dirty energy presence at country pavilions at #COP24 pic.twitter.com/Q9CSbjlKW2":1,"#This afternoon, our friends at Corporate Europe Observatory and several other allies led a satirical “toxic tour” for media, delegates, and civil society.":1,"#5 December, 2018":1,"#“Toxic tour” exposes Big Polluter infiltration of COP24":1,"#— Ben Goloff (@benjamingoloff) December 6, 2018":1,"#Happening now at the Climate Hub outside #COP24: A popular education workshop on the #PeoplesDemands for #ClimateJustice to face the urgency of this moment, share space and stories.@DClimateJustice @CenterForBioDiv @CJAOurPower @AsianPeoplesMvt @ItTakesRoots @StopCorpAbuse pic.twitter.com/ARLF9cak9A":1,"#Unlike Big Polluters, though, the global climate justice alliance of people got down to the urgent work we must do. The Corporate Accountability team and our allies, for example, held a popular workshop on the People’s Demands for Climate Justice. Rather than the dangerous schemes being peddled by Big Polluters, it is the People’s Demands that offer the real, just solutions we need. Have you added your name?":1,"#On the heels of yet another report ringing dire alarm bells for the climate, it’s never been clearer: we need to kick those driving the climate crisis — Big Polluters — out of the driver’s seat of climate policy. Now.":1,"#Philip Jakpor, head of media at Environmental Rights Action – Nigeria and a member of Corporate Accountability’s COP24 team, joined in the youth-led action.":1,"#The coalition of youth-led organizations at COP24 organized a powerful action to call attention to Big Polluters’ conflicts of interest: As delegates arrived for the day, they were greeted by youth wearing “information desk” sandwich boards handing out fliers. Their message? “Sorry if you’re experiencing delays at COP24 today. It’s business and industry day, so Big Polluters are delaying progress.”":1,"#— Jesse Bragg (@JesseBPress) December 6, 2018":1,"#“Suuuuper sorry about this but it’s business and industry day… so things are going to be delayed because they’re obstructing the negotiations.” #cop24 #pollutersoutpeoplein pic.twitter.com/rGB496o6sC":1,"#Today’s official theme at COP24 was “business and industry day”: A perfect opportunity for the Big Polluters swarming the talks to attempt to greenwash their brands and try to legitimize their presence. Naturally, the climate justice community did not stand idly by.":1,"#6 December, 2018":1,"#“Sorry if you’re experiencing delays at COP24 today. It’s business and industry day.”":1,"#— Sriram Madhusoodanan, Deputy Campaigns Director, Corporate Accountability":1,"#Tell the EU to stand with people, not Trump and Big Polluters.":1,"#We are working alongside European allies and people around the world to compel the EU to stand with its own people and millions around the world demanding equitable climate action.":1,"#The EU claims to be stronger on climate than the U.S., but it has been pushing Trump’s Big Polluters’ agenda behind the scenes.":1,"#With the Trump administration blatantly working on behalf of Big Polluters to stall climate action, the EU needs to stand with people.":1,"#It’s time for the EU to stop being Big Polluters’ pawn.":1,"#As we organize here on the ground, will you amplify this call? Call the EU and tell them to stop siding with the Trump Administration and Big Polluters and stand with people around the world.":1,"#We’re doing everything we can because we have a critical and narrow window to make sure governments commit to real solutions for climate justice, not dangerous schemes designed to benefit the fossil fuel industry.":1,"#The European Union (EU) claims to be a climate leader, but they’re not living up to that claim. Call the EU today to demand they stand with people, not Trump and Big Polluters.
Over the last few days, our team here at the negotiations has been organizing with other climate justice campaigners to ensure that your voice shines through. We’ve helped make the People’s Demands for Climate Justice a united global rallying cry. We held an event highlighting the path forward for climate justice, made global headlines to build visibility and pressure, and rallied with hundreds of activists to push for these just climate solutions.":1,"#We’re not letting them get away with it. But we need your help.":1,"#Some of the top sponsors of the conference here are some of Poland’s biggest polluters. The U.S. delegation is hosting an official side event promoting fossil fuel corporations with industry executives, just like they did at last year’s climate talks. This gives the dirtiest of energy corporations undue credibility and a platform in the negotiations as governments decide how to address the climate crisis.":1,"#Sriram Madhusoodanan, Deputy Campaigns Director of Corporate Accountability, addressing a demonstration promoting the People’s Demands for Climate Justice at COP24.":1,"#I’m here at the global climate talks in Poland, and what I’m seeing is disturbing: Just as they’ve always done, Big Polluters are attempting to co-opt the talks and use their vast resources and power to set the world on a course toward catastrophic climate change.":1,"#Our climate campaign director Sriram Madhusoodanan who is at COP24 needs you to call the European Union (EU) today to demand that they stand with people, not with the Trump administration and Big Polluters. So go ahead! Read on, and then call!":1,"#7 December, 2018":1,"#Call from our COP24 team leader: Call out the EU by calling the EU!":1,"#Our friends at Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development have a put together another large album of pictures here.":1,"#— Corporate Accountability (@StopCorpAbuse) December 8, 2018":1,"#We’re marching alongside thousands in Katowice at #COP24 to demand climate justice! pic.twitter.com/tN4pEfW8DQ":1,"#— Ellie Cohen (@ecohenpointblue) December 8, 2018":1,"#March for climate action at #UNFCCC global climate meeting #COP24 today in Katowice Poland. #ClimateActionNow pic.twitter.com/DCNKFVRRXf":1,"#— Jesse Bragg (@JesseBPress) December 8, 2018":1,"#Coal must go! Coal must go! Climate Justice Now! pic.twitter.com/01t4TArOfk":1,"#One of our favorite chants: “Coal must go! Coal must go! Climate Justice Now!” sung to the tune of Jingle Bells.":1,"#Here are some of the sights and sounds of today’s big COP24 Climate Justice March.":1,"#The sights and sounds of Saturday’s COP24 Climate Justice March":1,"#That’s why the action we wrote about yesterday is so urgent.":1,"#At this moment, the EU is pushing Shell’s text in negotiations onto other governments representing people — especially in the Global South — who bear the brunt of the climate crisis which they have done the least to cause. Again, this is outrageous.":1,"#If you haven’t yet seen Friday’s post below from Campaign Director Sriram Madhusoodanan, who is on the ground at the climate talks in Poland happening now, we urgently need you to call the EU right now and tell it to back the just, real solutions put forward by people in the People’s Demands instead.":1,"#Big Polluters should play no part in the climate talks, and the EU should side with people, not with Big Polluters.":1,"#This is outrageous.":1,"#In fact, journalist Kate Aronoff of The Intercept reveals that right now during COP24, where governments are discussing how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement, Shell has been heavily lobbying delegates to push its schemes forward with them. According to Shell, “the [European Union’s] position is not that different from how Shell sees this.”":1,"#We just learned Shell boasted last night that it shaped the Paris Agreement, just so it can keep polluting, making our climate crisis worse.":1},"version":8086}]