COP26, UN CLIMATE CHANGE
CONFERENCE Glasgow, October 31 to November 12, 2021
OMNI Glasgow Countdown, 10-22/31-21
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
Omnicenter.org/donate/
Contents (see below for earlier countdowns)
Science
for Peace, 10-22
Climate
Hawks, 10-25
Atomic
Scientists, 10-25
UN
Wire, 10-25
ADG, 10-26
World
Beyond War, 10-29
Senator
Ed Markey, 10-30
Avaaz: Greta Thunberg, 10-31
UNAC
and Global Network:: Convergence of Space,
Militarization, and the Climate Crisis, 10-31
TEXTS
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What is happening in
Glasgow 10-22-21
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Science for Peace science4peace@gmail.com via sendinblue.com
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10:23 AM (3 hours ago)
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This jointly-sponsored one-hour webcast assembles
six experts to reflect on Canada’s climate record and future
performance in the context of the COP26 climate summit in
Glasgow. In brief segments of 5-10 minutes, our experts answer
these key questions:
· What is COP?
· How adequate is the Liberal government’s climate
strategy?
· What is the history of Canada’s broken climate
promises?
· What are the challenges, in light of the IPCC’s
projections on emissions?
· What is being achieved in Glasgow?
· What can we do to promote a livable future?
All this in 60 minutes. Do join us at 4:30 on
Sunday, November 7th. Register now. It’s free.
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Hey, COP 26: Leave
no country behind
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Jessica, Climate Hawks Vote 10-25-21
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8:01 AM (0 minutes ago)
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Across the Global
South, climate-driven disasters are destroying homes, lives, and livelihoods.
And the worst part? The communities harmed most are the ones least
responsible for the climate pollution that is causing this devastation.
At a UN COP meeting
over ten years ago, the top developed nations made a pledge to provide $100
billion annually in climate funds to developing countries. But the big
countries, including the United States, have not yet met this goal, and the
number is already proving to be too small as the costs of climate disasters are
quickly rising.
Sign now >> Rich countries
must pay their fair share.
In just seven short
days, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for the UNFCCC’s
COP 26 climate summit. COP 26 President Alok Sharma has made it a top
priority of the upcoming negotiations to ensure the delivery of that $100
billion per year climate pledge and build trust between developed and
developing countries. But negotiation leaders need to hear from the general
public – they need to know that we expect them to leave no country behind.
That’s why we’re telling
rich countries at COP 26 in Glasgow that it’s time to pay their fair share.
Climate change is a
global problem, and our solutions must be global in nature. As the costs of
climate disasters rapidly increase, it’s time for rich countries to clean up their
mess and provide life-saving funds to the regions least responsible for this.
Add your signature to our
petition now.
Thank you, Jessica
Hamilton
Climate Hawks Vote
PO Box 141
Agoura Hills, CA 91376-0141
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BULLETIN OF THE
ATOMIC SCIENTISTS Oct. 25, 2021
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Your ongoing
support ensures we stay on mission and get the job done.
Thank you!
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UN WIRE 10-25-21
Officials issue dire warning ahead of COP26
A global failure to
address harmful emissions would exacerbate existing food shortages, driving
conflict and migration and ultimately threatening global stability, warns
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary
Patricia Espinosa ahead of this year's event in Glasgow, Scotland. "If
we fail to keep global temperatures at bay, the impacts on our health will be
profound and severe, affecting clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies
and access to safe shelter," adds World Health Organization regional
director for Europe Dr. Hans Henri Kluge.
Full Story: Thomson Reuters Foundation (10/22), The Guardian (London) (10/24)
   
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NDTV (India)/Agence France-Presse (10/25)
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National Public Radio (10/23)
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NDTV (India)/Agence France-Presse (10/25)
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National Public Radio (10/23)
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9:17 AM (5 hours ago)
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Reports warn of calamity on greenhouse
emissions
WILLIAM
BOOTH AND AMANDA COLETTA. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Oct
26, 2021
COP-OUT 26?
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World BEYOND War 10-29-21
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8:21 AM (11 minutes ago)
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COP26 is almost upon us. Will it be a
cop-out?
The petition that we'll be delivering has almost topped 500
organizations and 25,000 signers.
We encourage groups and individuals to
organize events to advance this message (Stop excluding
militaries from climate agreements!) on or about the big day
of action in Glasgow on November 6, 2021. Resources and ideas for
events are here.
Join our event in Glasgow
on Nov. 4, 2021. Facebook event. Join in the march through Glasgow on
Nov. 6 (assembling as a Peace Bloc at 11.45 at the Tigress & Cubs
statue in Kelvingrove Park, and being ready to join the march at
12.30).
Join in these sessions from anywhere on Earth at the Nov. 7 - 10 People's Summit:
Challenging the Military
Carbon Bootprint.
Climate Colonialism and
Climate Justice.
U.S. Militarism, Space
Tech, and Climate Crisis.
Shadow World Film Screening.
Join this Nov. 6 webinar.
Many more events and
resources here. And here.
To: Participants in COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, Glasgow,
Scotland, November 1-12, 2021
From: YOU
As a result of final-hour demands made
by the U.S. government during negotiation of the 1997 Kyoto treaty, military greenhouse gas emissions were exempted from climate
negotiations. That tradition has continued.
The 2015 Paris Agreement left cutting
military greenhouse gas emissions to the discretion of individual
nations.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, obliges signatories to publish annual greenhouse gas emissions,
but military emissions reporting is voluntary and often not included.
NATO has acknowledged the problem but
not created any specific requirements to address it.
There is no reasonable basis for this
gaping loophole. War and war
preparations are major greenhouse gas emitters. All greenhouse gas
emissions need to be included in mandatory greenhouse gas emission
reduction standards. There must be no more exception for military
pollution.
We ask COP26 to set strict greenhouse
gas emissions limits that make no exception for militarism, include
transparent reporting requirements and independent verification, and do
not rely on schemes to "offset" emissions. Greenhouse gas
emissions from a country’s overseas military bases must be fully
reported and charged to that country, not the country where the base is
located.
SIGN HERE.
World BEYOND War
is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated
organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war.
Donate to support our
people-powered movement for peace.
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COP26 Joint Cvg Week:
PREVIEW & RESOURCES
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Fri, Oct 29, 2:54 PM (1 day ago)
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Dear partners,
We’re so excited to kick off another Covering Climate Now joint coverage week, October 31 to November 6 — “Code
Red: The World’s Climate Summit — focused on what’s at stake during the
United Nations COP26 global climate conference. As thousands of
government leaders and members of civil society descend on Glasgow, the
aim of this coverage week is to emphasize the gravity, and the human
consequences, of the decisions that will be made there. The story deserves
everything we’ve got, and we’re grateful to have you aboard.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR COP26
COVERAGE PREVIEW & RESOURCES
We’re thrilled to announce CCNow’s newest partner: Just
in time for COP26, ABC News announced this week that
they’ve joined our collaboration. It’s part of a larger effort by ABC
to bolster its coverage of the climate story, which includes the establishment
of a special climate unit, to be headed by chief meteorologist Ginger
Zee, and a month-long series reporting on climate impacts around the
world. Click here for much more on
ABC’s COP26 and climate reporting plans.
A reminder to all partners: From November 5 to 14, Mark Hertsgaard, CCNow’s
executive director and veteran of international climate conferences, will
be on the ground in Glasgow. He will file regular news and analysis
dispatches, available for all CCNow partners to publish; he is
additionally available for press interviews and radio and TV
appearances.
*For those of you also in Glasgow, come by the CCNow Happy Hour on
Monday, November 8, from 6 to 8pm at The Grove pub, located 7 minutes
walk from the COP26 conference center.*
To help you prepare for the joint coverage week, we’ve prepared a
document that collects an abundance of COP26-related resources and
gives a snapshot of the coverage some partners have planned, much of
which will be available for you to publish.
Throughout the joint week, we ask that partners:
· Publish, broadcast, and share your own original COP26 stories,
in addition to content available from other partners.
· Engage your audience on the subject of
COP26. This is a story that matters to audiences everywhere!
· Amplify CCNow coverage on social media,
tagging @CoveringClimate and using the hashtag #COP26.
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact
us: editors@coveringclimatenow.org.
Now let’s go make some noise!
Onward,
The CCNow Team
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All eyes on us 10-30-21
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10:27 AM (1 hour ago)
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Dick - [Markey and AOC originated the Green New Deal
Resolutions in Congress. The following
letter expresses the aims outlined in those Resolutions. D]
This time tomorrow, the
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be underway in Glasgow,
Scotland — and eyes all around the world will be on our movement for
climate justice.
Ahead of the conference,
President Biden has announced a new framework for the Build Back Better deal —
one that would invest a historic $555 billion in climate action and clean
energy projects.
An agreement for this
framework is close, but there’s still a great deal of work to be done in
Congress to hammer out the details and put our nation and our planet on the
right track toward combating the existential threat of climate change. That’s
why I’m asking you today:
Will you add your name to my
petition demanding large-scale and immediate action to combat the climate
crisis? The time for bold climate action is now, and we don’t have a moment to
waste.
As you may remember, an
August report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called the
state of the climate crisis “code red for humanity.”
The fact is that the
United States, with our outsized historic responsibility for the climate
crisis, has an outsized responsibility to solve it.
If we’re going to
re-establish the United States as a world leader in the fight against climate
catastrophe — and bring other countries along in that fight — our progressive
movement must lead the charge right here at home.
The Build Back Better framework MUST make the
investments we need to deliver on our international commitment to cut climate
pollution by at least 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. It must create good-paying,
union jobs in a clean economy that works for all communities. And it must
center environmental, economic, and racial justice.
That is our climate test.
As it stands, the
general framework of this Build Back
Better deal will take important steps to help us cut harmful emissions,
create jobs, and promote justice.
It will create a robust
Civilian Climate Corps, training the next generation of workers for careers
rebuilding our energy economy and create new, good-paying jobs all across the
country combating this global crisis.
It creates a national
climate bank to speed up the development of clean energy projects across the
nation, and makes investments nationwide in renewable energy infrastructure.
Will this deal do
everything we need to combat the climate crisis and stop global temperature
rise? No. There will always be more work to do to address the existential
crisis of our time.
But as the President
heads to Glasgow, as deadlines set by the top scientific experts around the
world rapidly pass us by, as sea levels rise, natural disasters strike every
region of the United States with frightening regularity, temperatures reach
record heights, and our environment is thrown into chaos, one thing is
abundantly clear: we must act now.
The fact is that the
only way our movement will be able to do that is together. So I’m asking you
directly:
Will you add your name to my
petition demanding large-scale and immediate action to combat the climate
crisis? The time for bold climate action is now, and we don’t have a moment to
waste.
As I’ve said, we have a
great deal of work to do. And our opponents in the fossil fuel industry and in
the Republican Party have virtually limitless resources to put to work
destroying our planet, and they’re not afraid to use them.
The good news is that
our movement is growing stronger by the day, and I’m confident that together we
will make our agenda for climate justice a reality.
As always, thank you for
all you do. It’s the honor of my life to stand beside you in this fight.
In solidarity,
Ed Markey
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An emergency appeal 10-31-21
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Greta Thunberg via uark.onmicrosoft.com
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12:05 AM (10 hours ago)
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Dear friends,
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 Humanity is failing to stop the climate crisis. It's now beyond urgent -- the planet
is screaming for help.
Right now world leaders are meeting for historic climate talks -- but
pledges without real action won't cut it anymore. We need bold,
visionary leaders to finally do what's needed to pull us back
from the abyss.
I'll be at the talks with inspiring youth leaders like Vanessa Nakate and
Dominika Lasota. We'll personally meet dozens of governments --
it's the perfect opportunity to deliver a giant call for urgent action.
Join us now: add your name with one click and pass this on.
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To world
leaders,
"Betrayal."
That's how young people around the world describe our
governments' failure to cut carbon emissions. And it's no surprise.
We are catastrophically far from the crucial goal of 1.5°C, and yet
governments everywhere are still accelerating the crisis, spending
billions on fossil fuels.
This is not a drill. It's
code red for the Earth.
Millions will suffer as our planet is devastated -- a terrifying
future that will be created, or avoided, by the decisions you make.
You have the power to decide.
As citizens across the planet, we urge you to face up to the
climate emergency. Not next year. Not next month. Now:
· Keep the precious goal of 1.5°C alive with immediate, drastic, annual emission
reductions unlike anything the world has ever seen.
· End all fossil fuel investments, subsidies, and new projects
immediately, and stop new exploration and extraction.
· End 'creative' carbon accounting by publishing total emissions for
all consumption indices, supply chains, international aviation and
shipping, and the burning of biomass.
· Deliver the $100bn promised to the most
vulnerable countries,
with additional funds for climate disasters.
· Enact climate policies to protect
workers and the most vulnerable, and reduce all forms of inequality.
We can still do
this. There is
still time to avoid the worst consequences if we are prepared to change.
It will take determined, visionary leadership. And it will take immense
courage -- but know that when you rise, billions will be right behind
you.
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It can feel
incredibly hard to keep hope alive in the face of inaction. But my
hope lies in people -- in the millions of us who are rising to save the
future. It lies in our marches, in our dogged determination to keep
fighting, and in our trembling voices as we speak truth to power. My hope
is rooted in action and fuelled by a love for humanity and our most
beautiful earth. It's what keeps me absolutely convinced that we can do
this. And we must do this. Together.
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With fierce hope,
Greta from Sweden, with Vanessa from Uganda, Dominika from Poland, Mitzi
from the Philippines, youth activists across the world, and the whole
team at Avaaz
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More information:
· World is failing to make
changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds (The
Guardian)
· It’s Time for COP26.
Here’s Where We Stand. (New York Times)
· The impacts of climate
change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond (Carbon Brief)
· UN sounds alarm on missing
climate pledges (Reuters)
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The deadly connections between space,
militarization and the climate crisis.
10-31-21
A UNAC sponsored
webinar in conjunction with the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space.
November 12, 4 PM EST
click here to register
As COP26 meets in Scotland during this year of extreme weather due to
climate change, it is more important than ever that the Climate Change and
Antiwar movements work together to end these threats to humankind. Please join us for this important webinar.
Speakers include:
Dave Webb (UK) – Board chair of the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and current chair of UK's Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Koohan Paik-Mander - a Hawaii-based journalist and media
educator. She is a board member of the Global Network and the CODEPINK working
group "China is Not Our Enemy." She formerly served as campaign
director of the Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on
Globalization.
Bruce Gagnon -Coordinator of the Global Network Against
Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Please make a
contribution to UNAC: http://UNACpeace.org/donate.html
If your organization
would like to join the UNAC coalition, please click here:
http://UNACpeace.org/join.html
Subscribe to the UNAC
YouTube channel: here
Read the UNAC Blog for articles by UNAC members and friends
https://unac.notowar.net/
For earlier reporting see OMNI COP26 Glasgow Countdown UNCC
Conference 10-22-21 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/cop26-un-cc-conference-glasgow-oct-31.html
END OMNI COP26 GLASGOW
COUNTDOWN 10-31-21
