*[Enwl-eng] URGENT: Forcing Canada on climate action

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Jun 15, 2020, 1:06:33 PM6/15/20
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Canada, with its deplorable climate record, could get a seat on the UN Security Council -- the vote happens in just two days.

Island nations most affected by climate change could swing the vote -- and your message today would show the world is standing behind them. 

 Send a message 

Canada is dumping billions of public money into fossil fuel subsidies every year, propping up an industry that is wreaking havoc on our climate. And this despite G20 commitments to end these subsidies in the next five years.

Climate chaos disproportionately affects island nations and famous climate activist, Greta Thunberg, has raised the call for these island nations to use their power, at the UN Security Council vote, to force Canada to do better on climate action.

The vote is this Wednesday and countries are in the final moments of making a decision. Your email today could help embolden these small nations to stand up to Canada’s dismal climate record and force it to stop propping up the destructive fossil fuel industry.

Send your message today to stop Canada’s inaction on climate chaos

In the last two weeks, two very damning reports have come out showing that Trudeau is still dumping billions into the oil industry despite its G20 commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

And this in the same year that has seen climate disasters like the Australian bush fires and the back-to-back extreme cyclones in India.

Climate chaos will affect island nations the most -- and they have a rare opportunity to leverage their power in the UN Security Council vote to show Canada, and the world, that only drastic climate action will get their votes.

By emailing the representatives today, you will show them that the world is behind them in standing up to large global powers like Canada who are driving climate chaos with their massive public support of the fossil fuel industry.

Send a message of support to Island Nations today.

All across the world, white people in North and Western countries are waking up to the harsh lived realities of BIPOC people living under white supremacy. And this racism shows up in climate work too, when rich, predominantly white nations like Canada prop up Big Oil companies pushing forward climate chaos -- something that predominantly affects nations of Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples.

At SumOfUs we are working to centre the voices of those who are most impacted by climate chaos and support their struggle by challenging rich, white global powers.

And I know that, together, we can, and will, support those fighting for their lives in the climate catastrophe.

 Send a message 

Thanks for all that you do,
Amelia and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

Greta Thunberg pushes Canada, Norway on climate before UN Security Council vote, CBC, 10 June 2020
Still Digging: G20 Governments Continue to Finance the Climate Crisis, Oil Change International, 27 May 2020 

 
 

 

 


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