A CORRUPT COP CAN'T SOLVE A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!   Extinction Rebellion UK Approach to COP26
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Date: 2021-11-11

- XRUK Position on COP26
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2021/0...

- XRUK Political Circle Statement on COP26
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12... 

The wildfires, the storms, the lethal heatwaves, the droughts, the melting glaciers, the sea level rises we have experienced in recent years are only a taste of what the world’s richest nations are setting us up for. Ecosystems are being destroyed. Species are being wiped out. Tipping points are looming and may already have been passed. There will be no going back. And this is what was predicted by scientists.

Lives and livelihoods are being shattered and millions of lives have already been lost. Hundreds of millions are already being hammered by the fallout from the still growing carbon economy and the breakdown of our climate and nature. Their children’s futures are being betrayed. Your children’s futures are being betrayed. They will not forgive.

Yet  governments, in bed with fossil fuel companies and other anti-climate industries whose armies of lobbyists stalk the halls of parliaments across the world, have largely ignored these warnings and knowingly continued to allow the expansion of the sources of death and destruction.

Decades of denial, inaction, and exponential increases in carbon emissions have led us to this point. We have emitted more carbon since governments have been meeting to address the climate crisis than in the entirety of human history beforehand.

Our governments committed to try and keep global warming under 1.5C six years ago. Rich countries promised to provide $100bn a year by 2020 to support decarbonised, sustainable development in poor countries.

But since then global carbon emissions have continued to rise.  Since then governments have spent more subsidising fossil fuels than they have on policies to meet their commitments—using taxpayers’ money to fund their own destruction. Since then the UK government, as host of COP26, commissioned a report from the International Energy Agency that stated categorically that there could be no new fossil fuel projects from now on if we are to stay below 1.5C—yet the UK government, like many others, continues to licence new projects. Since then the rich countries, responsible for 92% of excess emissions in the atmosphere, have broken their inadequate promises to the poor countries. Since then the ecological destruction has accelerated apace.

They cannot say they did not know. This is a crime against humanity.

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