Climate Memo Mondays #37

 

Climate Memo Mondays

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Coveringclimatenow.org
Avaaz,  UN Biodiversity Summit in October on the extinction crisis, and just a few weeks later, the UN Climate Summit to secure new national commitments.
UN Biodiversity Summit, Oct. 11
UN Climate Summit, Nov. 1

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The last generation

UN Biodiversity Summit

 

Huiting Hsu - Avaaz via uark.onmicrosoft.com

        Jul 20, 2021, 11:05 PM  

 Dear friends,

This isn't global warming anymore. It's global scorching.

Our world is hotter now than any time in recorded history, unleashing a firestorm of heatwaves, megadroughts, and acidifying seas. We are shattering the temple of life, with a million species on the edge of extinction.

Within 50 years, 1.5 billion people could be forced to flee temperatures as hot as the Sahara desert -- already 20 million are forced to run every year.

We're living through one of the greatest upheavals of life on earth, and it's caused by a global rise of just 1°C. We're on track for 3°C. Just imagine the hostile and desolate planet our children will inherit.

But here's the most important bit: We CAN still turn this around -- we may be the last generation who can. The next five months are critical.

World leaders will hold two major UN summits, where momentous decisions on the climate and extinction crisis must be made. It could change everything -- or nothing. It means we only have 150 days to shake our leaders into action, radically grow our team to overpower the fossil fuel army, supercharge massive marches, and get the world behind our courageous plan to save nature.

Earth can't wait anymore. This is one of the most important times to be alive on this fragile planet, because it all hangs in the balance. We have to give it everything we've got, and just a small weekly donation from each of us will make an almighty difference. If you've ever thought of donating, do it now and let's fight for the future of our world:

The UN Biodiversity Summit will happen in October, and aims to end the extinction crisis with bold new protections for nature. And then just a few weeks later, the global Climate Summit is our best chance to secure new commitments to avoid a climate catastrophe.

The threats we face are no longer just serious; they are a matter of survival. We can't miss this moment: Earth needs a powerful voice as leaders decide the future. A tiny regular donation will make an incredible difference to what we can do together -- chip in now so we can be deafening:

In the battle to save our world, there is no certainty; only opportunity. And together, our years of marching, protesting, and advocacy have helped create the golden opportunities ahead. Together, we are changing the world -- and I am now more hopeful than I've been in a very long time. And hope is power. The power to rise and fight and charge like never before. Because it's clear that when we come together, all 66 million of us, our movement is capable of the most extraordinary things. This moment demands nothing less.

With fierce hope and determination, always,

Huiting, Mike, Chris, Marigona, Adela, Fra, Camille, Alis, Mouhamad, Bert and the whole team at Avaaz

PS. This might be your first donation to our movement ever. But what a first donation! Did you know that Avaaz relies entirely on small donations from members like you? That's why we're fully independent, nimble and effective. Join the over 1 million people who've donated to make Avaaz a real force for good in the world.  [I CAN’T VERIFY Avaaz’s SELF-PRESENTATION, BUT THE APPEAL FOR ACTION AND MONEY IS URGENT, SO CHOOSE THE BEST ORGANIZATIONS IN YOUR JUDGEMENT.  I suggest these two UN organizations as starters.–Dick]  

 

More information:

•        Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans (the Guardian)

•        Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation (Aljazeera)

•        3 billion people could live in places as hot as the Sahara by 2070  (World Economic Forum)

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UN Biodiversity Conference

Event date: 

11 Oct 2021 - 09:00

Location:   Kunming, China

The fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will review the achievement and delivery of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization.

The “zero draft” for a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has included a focus on ensuring work to preserve biodiversity contributes to “the nutrition, food security, and livelihoods of people, especially for the most vulnerable.”

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UN Climate Summit, Glasgow, Scotland on November 1st, 2021   From Daily Kos (7-22-21).  
The most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement will begin in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1st, 2021. The outcomes of these negotiations — including public and private sector commitments — will go a long way to determining our ability to combat the climate crisis.

We’re calling on financial institutions & the US government to end their support for companies engaged in climate destruction and human rights abuses by the start of the Glasgow Climate Talks.

In the past twelve months, many financial institutions ― from banks to insurance companies; asset managers to pension funds ― have made new climate commitments, such as “net-zero” emissions by 2050. Yet, at the same time they are providing loans, insurance and billions in investment capital, to corporations expanding the fossil fuel industry and deforesting the Amazon and other tropical forests ― companies that are guilty of human rights abuses and violations of Indigenous sovereignty.

Major new fossil fuel projects, such as Line 3, the TransMountain pipeline, the Formosa plastics plant, and major deforestation projects, could not get off the ground without the support of the financial sector and the US government.

In order to mitigate the climate disaster, this must end now! U.S. financial institutions & the US Nov. 1 Glasgow, Scotland climate talks government must immediately stop funding climate chaos.

Be noisy with our congressmen, be some trouble: what are they doing for the summits?  What is Fayetteville?