Join the November 12 Global Day of Action during COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt

A Fridays for Future student demonstration in Hamburg, Germany, on 9/23/2022. Students took to the streets to strike and demand that their politicians act urgently to prevent further global warming. Klaus Cook / Shutterstock.

by Nancy Price, Co-chair, Earth Democracy Committee
Cindy Piester, WILPF International delegate to COP27
 

November 2022

The 27^th annual UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties is taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, south of Cairo in Egypt, from November 6-18, 2022. WILPF US will have a presence at the meeting and we can show our support by creating or joining events here in the US!

The “COP27 Coalition” has called for a decentralized Global Day of Action on Saturday, November 12, organized in cities and towns across the globe, to help mobilize millions of people under a call for climate justice and bring movements together to build real power for systems change. They also asked civil society to organize people’s forums and other collective actions to demand effective action by their leaders and governments throughout the COP27 meetings.

How WILPF US Is Taking a Stand at COP27:

• Cindy Piester will be in Egypt representing WILPF US and the Earth Democracy Committee as one of ten delegates of WILPF International’s Environmental Working Group delegation to COP 27. Cindy will hand out the WILPF US flyer below requesting that John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, and the US Delegation support our WILPF US “demands.”
• Cindy will send frequent reports, photos, and interviews that we’ll post at the WILPF Facebook page and YouTube. Check into those sites and support Cindy’s important work at the meeting by sharing this content with others!
• Print out this flyer to use at any events you participate in during COP 27. This two-page pdf file is the front and back of the flyer. Print in color double-sided on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper that you then cut in half.
• Participate in your local Fridays for Future event on November 8, 11, or 18. Pass out flyers and raise high your banners and homemade posters.
• Order your Climate Justice+Women+Peace or your Peace and Planet Before Profit banners for upcoming actions— along with other WILPF support materials like buttons and sashes at this link.
   

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What COP27 Is All About

On September 15, 2022, civil society groups especially from Egypt, African countries, and the Arab world issued a call for a global mass mobilization of people everywhere to address the root cause of the climate crisis and other injustices, to take place around the world during COP27.

These groups launched the “COP27 Coalition” and invited civil society groups around the world to demand an end to climate and other injustices imposed by neo-colonialism, militarism and wars, patriarchy, global corporate capitalism, continued dependence on fossil fuels and extractivism, loss of biodiversity and more - and to demand an urgent response from governments and leaders to climate and other multiple linked crises. 

As part of that invitation, they called for a decentralized Global Day of Action on Saturday, November 12th, and for other actions, to be organized in cities and towns across the globe during the COP.

The COP27 Coalition demands a “reset” of the multilateral system to address the scale of the challenge to keep global warming at or below 1.5 degrees C/2.7 degrees C as part of a wider agenda to address climate change.

Read about the COP 27 Coalition here including General Principles, Objectives and Key Areas of Work.

The COP 27 Demands Are:

Decolonize the Economy and Development

1. Ensure and enable Just Transitions that are procedurally just and result in justice for workers and impacted communities
2. Enable a just transition to 100% renewable energy through a fair and equitable phase out of fossil fuels
3. Prioritize public health, food sovereignty, agroecology and living conditions
4. Restore nature and defending the rights of Mother Earth

Repay Climate Debt and Deliver the Money

1. Rich countries to repay their climate debt by reducing emissions to zero and paying reparations for climate impacts, including adaptation and loss and damage
2. Recognize that the debt burden facing many developing countries has been exacerbated by the additional financial burdens to address the impacts of climate change and therefore should cancel financial debts and transfer the finance they committed to
3. Support technology transfer and put in place IP waivers for technologies that are necessary to address the climate crisis and which should be considered for the public common good and not private profiteering

No False Solutions

1. Reduce emissions to real zero not "net zero"
2. Stop carbon markets, geo-engineering and other false solutions
3. Hold corporations and elites to account

Build Global Solidarity, Peace & Justice

1. End to all fossil-fueled wars and conflict
2. Ensure safe and enabling environment for civil society
3. Build global solidarity amongst peoples as a basis for a movement for justice and peace

Here’s the list of “thematic dialogues” during COP 27, each one on a specific day: Finance, Science, Youth & Future generations, Decarbonization, Adaptation & Agriculture, Gender, Water, Age and Civil Society, Energy, and Biodiversity.

Remember to Talk with Your Friends and Family

In the coming weeks, and all year round, remind your friends and family of the dangers and destruction caused by climate change.

As warming increases, we see these impacts:

1. Terrifying storms are more common.
2. Accelerating collapse of coral reefs that protect low-lying islands.
3. Melting ice floods areas and cities, raises sea levels along with the expansion of warmer ocean water.
4. Increased extreme heat, drought, and food insecurity can be expected.
5. Potential slowing down or disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning (Gulf Stream) bringing greater cold to North America and Europe is more likely.
6. Increased internal and external migrations, conflicts, wars.
7. Responsive policies that focus on women, children, disabled and elderly will be needed.