I was thrilled to meet two brilliant @NorthwesternU students studying negotiation and climate finance at #COP26.
I'm so inspired by all of the young people who have found it in their hearts to demand change - and I'm proud to see Illinois so well represented here in Glasgow!
Photo from the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change Pavilion, just before COP’s first ever side event centering people with disability was held
Just to be clear: there is nothing “pro-life” about denying people comprehensive sexual education, making birth control harder to access, forcing others to give birth against their will, and stripping them of healthcare and food assistance afterwards.
Draft decisions being adopted at #Cop25Madrid2019 despite USA & wealthy countries refusing to fund Global South countries experiencing climate crisis now.
#IndigenousRights#NixArticle6
BREAKING: Youth, indigenous, & civil society activists are holding a sit in at the main #COP25 hall to protest their silencing & lack of inclusion of human rights in the negotiations.
“COP has failed us!”
#FridaysForFuture#ClimateStrike
It is unacceptable that the latest text on Article 6 on carbon markets does not include language on promoting #humanrights and ensuring strong safeguards to protect people and the environment. 4/n
@COP25 Observer activists this morning calling for USA, Canada, EU, Australia to stop blocking support for frontline communities experiencing and fighting climate change effects right now! #IndigenousRights#LossAndDamage#NixArticle6
🚨Has #COP25 global climate negotiations forgotten about the people?🚨 We need urgent, ambitious, #humanrights-based climate commitments. The climate crisis demands it. #FixArticle6#ClimateRights4All
“This is not a political issue that should be used to generate votes, it’s a matter of life and death, of dignity, which is why all federal initiatives must include local Indigenous communities in positions of leadership” - Bineshi Albert @IENearth#COP25 https://t.co/1PuIHGcIxM
Activists were kicked out of #COP25 Wednesday for demonstrating. Many were shoved by police and had their badges taken. @ngualinga says Indigenous activists like her "are the ones taking care of these lands… yet, we're not being listened to." "We should be inside there."
At #COP25, we took the center stage and reclaimed the mic with other youth, indigenous and frontline leaders from around the world.
They kicked us out.
We will continue to fight for climate justice. We will not be silenced or intimidated. We will win.
Outraged that @UNFCCC has reacted with such aggression towards peaceful protests on lack of progress at #COP25. 100s of us kicked out for demanding rich countries #payup to those suffering #climate impacts; and an end to dodgy carbon trading. #Kickpollutersout, not people.
In Monday’s #COP25Madrid high-level panel on participation, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment David Boyd cites negotiators saying human rights “hanging by a thread” in Article 6 negotiations. #NixArticle6#IndigenousRights#HumanRightsDay