*[Enwl-eng] People to the front
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Hi,
My name is Cansın, I’m a 350.org team member, and I’m getting ready to travel to Glasgow in Scotland for the 26th UN Climate Summit at the end of October.
This journey has taken longer than usual to start, because the crucial climate talks were postponed last year as the pandemic raged across the world. But the climate movement is ready to step up and be heard.
I hope you’ll join me on this journey through the climate summit. We’ll be sharing on the ground updates from the climate movement’s push for justice in this complex process, as well as ways you can support the fight to stay below 1.5 degrees, no matter where you are in the world.
Right now - in the midst of unfathomable climate disasters – the fossil fuel industry is on track to have a record-profit year [1]. I have grieved over the climate impacts we have seen for years around the world. But this year, it was different. The climate crisis was knocking on my doorstep as hundreds of wildfires raged across my home country in Turkey. Climate impacts will not simply go away. And we will not back down from the fossil fuel industry that is causing them.
Why are we travelling when the pandemic is still going on? Because it’s particularly important for less powerful countries who are most impacted by climate change to band together in person at the climate talks to get their voices heard. All too often these voices get sidelined or silenced in global decision-making spaces – and we cannot let this happen here.
We’re travelling to Glasgow with the mission to bring the people to the front, and make sure the voices of the most impacted people are heard. So many can’t be here in person, but you can sign this petition to put more weight behind these critical demands, wherever you are.
To keep funding fossil fuels means to knowingly bankroll a climate disaster. We need the world's richest countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union to step up their climate finance game right now: stop funding fossil fuels, invest in solutions to the climate crisis instead, everywhere in the world.
I said this is a journey because this climate summit won’t magically solve the climate crisis, but pledges made here, and —importantly— people power unleashed here can take a critical step towards ending the fossil fuel era once and for all.
Together, with the pressure on the streets and online, we will make banks and governments start moving at the scale and speed necessary to create the change we need.
I’ll send more updates soon.
In solidarity,
Cansin for the 350.org team
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350.org is building a global climate movement. You can connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing.
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