Rising to the Challenges of this Most Critical Decade for Climate Justice

May 18, 2021 10:00 am - May 18, 2021 12:00 pm

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This Plenary session interrogated what is needed for the urgent struggle for climate justice, and a just transition that can meet the 1.5C target. We discussed fair shares for emission cuts, real versus ‘net’ zero, climate finance, and the question of adaptation of food, land and agriculture.

1. Meeting the requirements of keeping global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees celsius – and where governments are at vs their fair shares

2. Climate Finance

3. The challenge of Real Zero and the dangerous deception of Net Zero

4. The Fight to End Fossil Fuels Equitably and through a Just Transition

5. Food, Land, Agriculture and Climate Change

Speakers:

Lidy B. Nacpil: Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development
Meena Raman: Third World Network and Friends of the Earth
Teresa Anderson: Action Aid International
Greg Muttitt: International Institute for Sustainable Development

Moderators: Dorothy Guerrero (UK) & Kris Vanslambrouck (Belgium)

Resources: 
Presentation: Equitably ending fossil fuel extraction by Greg Muttitt
Presentation: The Net Zero Fallacy by Meena Raman

Organisers: AEPF Cluster on Climate Justice & Just Transition

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May 18, 2021 10:00 am - May 18, 2021 12:00 pm

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