Lobsang Yangtso escaped from Tibet by climbing over the Himalayas
when she was just 9 years old.
Today, she's an environment and climate crisis expert with a
Ph.D. And she's terrified about what is happening in her
Tibetan homeland, where ice is melting 3x faster than anywhere
else on the planet. As home to a glacier that provides
water for 1 in every 5 people on Earth...we should all be
terrified.
Lobsang wants to sound the alarm at the critical
COP26
climate conference in
Glasgow, just weeks away. But the high cost of attending means she
and other front-line activists and experts are being shut out
completely -- leaving the fossil fuel lobby to control the
narrative and stop real action.
We can change that -- if thousands of us chip in, our
community can send Lobsang to meet our leaders...and fund
campaigning for real impact at the conference. Can you chip in to
help?
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The world’s biggest oil and gas companies will descend on COP26
in an all-out offensive to protect their profits. Their plan
is to lobby countries to invest in gas as a path forward
instead of actual clean energy. And if they succeed, it
will mean we continue down the catastrophic pathway to 2.7-degrees
of heating.
Imagine what it would mean for the next
generation.
The good news is we know what we have to do to win:
center the stories of those on the front lines of climate
disaster to show world leaders that the cost of inaction is
just too high.
But a combination of travel costs, visa complexities, and new
covid restrictions requiring vaccinated people from South America,
India, and Africa to quarantine means that the people we most need
at the table won’t be there. Unless our community steps
in.
Lobsang knows exactly what is happening to the
environment in Tibet and has witnessed firsthand the impact of the
climate crisis in this fragile and vital land.
If we’re going to have a shot at taking on the massive oil and
gas lobby, we need voices like Lobsang’s at COP26. Can you
give just a small amount to send Lobsang and her team to
Glasgow?
If
you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation
will go through immediately:
The threats we face are a matter of life or death. If we don’t
slam the brakes on runaway climate change, our future is extreme
weather, food shortages, and millions displaced. The next few months
will decide if we succeed or fail, but to win we need to
center the voices of the communities with everything at
stake.
The SumOfUs community has come together time and time again to
stand in solidarity with communities risking everything to change
the world -- from the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon to
Bangladeshi labor organizers to communities across the globe taking
on corporate power. Let’s do it again to save the planet we
all call home.
