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So before I introduce our speakers and what we're going to go through today, I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the space we find ourselves in. So obviously in the past week, we've seen the release of the latest IPCC report with not so surprising but still harrowing news of the scale of the climate crisis will be shortly unpacking all of this. And we also find ourselves in the context of a war being launched on Ukraine. So I wanted to take a moment to express our solidarity to the people of Ukraine and also to acknowledge, recognise and send solidarity to other communities across the globe who have and continue to be under attack and who have been and continue to be impacted by war, conflict, violence, injustice and oppression. So we'll be talking about these topics that are quite heavily and emotionally charged throughout the webinar. So please do whatever you can do to be kind and gentle to yourselves throughout the whole hour and a half. So in the webinar, we will first be talking a little bit about this context we find ourselves in and what is happening in Ukraine with Zvitlana Romanko and we will then go into unpacking a little bit the findings of the IPCC report, but also what it means for our movements and our climate justice demands. We'll be doing that with Professor Wolfgang Kramer and Asad Weyman and then we will hear some much needed perspectives on hope and on people power from activists, organisers and community leaders Tasnim Eseb, Amanda Costa and Francisco Javier Berra-Manzanare. And then we'll finish with a little bit of time for Q&A. So that's a whole programme and without further ado I will give the floor to Zvitlana. So Zvitlana Romanko is an environmental lawyer and Ukrainian climate justice activist, green strategist and a campaign manager passionate about climate justice, ending fossil fuels, green finance and a green inclusive economy. As Zvitlana, the floor is yours. Thank you, Liz and I am very pleased to be here. Hello everyone. Thank you for having me today with you and I will try to give you as much updated information on Ukraine as they do have and we'll speak today about justice, not only climate justice and we will speak a lot about people power which fits us with enormous energy even if in the toughest, very, very tough situations we're still always able to find and any resources. So as you know our country, our Ukraine is at war. So our people are massively dying on the front lines and this is to our strictest convention, it's a fossil fuel financed war by Russia, the largest country in the world by landmass with 60% of the economy based on fossil fuel exploration and trade. I would like slightly to go back into prerequisites that cost this in just extraordinary unimaginable war which we never have expected to witness in 21st century of course but it seems like yes this invasion confronts Europe with the darkest hours and confronts the world with the cream of future but this is exactly these times that require us to stand up and stand firm and stand united and take bold actions against the forces who willing to strengthen our collective existence. That's the highest time to restore justice I would say and this is at times when we can witness ourselves the justice is very, very substantial definition which we and which we can even think. Yeah it's not material but we can see some material prerequisites and material outputs of what justice is. So just recognizing that the war in Russia, the war by Russia against Ukraine is a war against Ukrainian sovereignty and independence and it's also a great violation of human rights international law and the global peace. Why this has happened is the heart of Europe and with the policy developments where we are. First of all I believe that the governments and foreign fossil fuel companies fed and expressed a long-term blind tolerance to Russia based on its fossil fuel richest economy status quo the extensive consumption and dependence of its unlimited fossil fuel reserves in the European Union and the close arms of partnership with foreign fossil fuel companies that enabled ongoing Russian propaganda of new Nazis imperialism and colonialism which later as we see resulted in war. When I've been preparing to this conversation it was quite heavy for me just to stay positive about the outcomes because I see people dying I see news every day and we see how how massive this Russian military attack is against us but at the same time I came here full of hope and full of optimism that our Ukraine and our world in many regions can overcome this temporary challenge. Yeah it's serious but let's not to make it just in a way that we don't believe we win we will win for sure and that's why I'm here and that's why I share this solidarity and I am grateful for all solidarity we are getting these these days from all the countries all communities frontline communities affected communities indigenous communities people of color we equally appreciate everyone who expressing a big solidarity with us and we are very grateful to everyone. So continuing in the past days as I said we've witnessed unprecedented courage and bravery from Ukrainian various and civilians and through the collective actions that countries of the world are taking to stop the war as I said there is hope because we want peace and justice but there won't be peace in the world where Gazprom, Exxon, Total, British Petroleum and many many others and many financial institutions whom we know banks including us and others support the activities are allowed to extract transport and burn fossil fuels besides concrete acts of solidarity alongside calls for sanctions pushing for a just transition to 100 percent of renewable energy building for everyone equally a community owned building a fossil free world is how the climate movement can outside of Ukraine contribute to building peace and I'm here also to share a plan they shaped up exactly when the IPCC report was published on February 2028 IPCC report has highlighted that yes the main outcome is we cannot consume that many energy from that dirty sources anymore we cannot rely on unreliable sources of energy with unproved effectiveness as all we know triple C carbon capture stories and many others and we see impact is huge but at the same time we cannot rely in the same way for using fossil fuels anywhere on the planet so what we are what we decided to offer as the movement as a climate movement even being in very tough war environment so far so and what we would like to share with you here all so the first one that that we witnessed that the fossil fuels are equal to the mass of or to the weapon of a mass destruction I don't think it needs some additional proofs or arguments as we see how fossil fuel finance are actually weaponized is for we have in Ukraine and therefore we call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to end the expansion of oil gas and coal production everywhere to have a fair and equitable phase out for and just transition from fossil fuels to community on clean energy to 100% renewable energy and we call European nation states the US, Canada, China, India, Japan, South Korea and all other importers of Russian oil and gas to divest boycott and embargo all trade and assets of fossil fuels from Russia and divest everything they have in assets from Russian companies and today we actually just a few numbers when you open the London stock exchange market value of some companies they have huge decline really massive and huge decline for example Sberbank Russian Bank one of the main ones has declined from 75 billion dollars of capitalization to 7 milliard we see 10 times lower and Gazprom lost more than a half of their capitalization and this processing is underway I think we all need to act and to ask our governments and financial institutions and banks don't find in fossil fuels with the priority in Russia but everywhere else as well in every region of the of our planet and we also produced drafted another letter it's ready it will be released soon to oil and gas finances to seize all financial services for Russian energy companies who are operating in the coal oil and gas sectors and of course it's imperative that the world not simply replace Russian produce fossil fuels with fossil fuels from other countries I think we understand that justice means justice but not injustice that will let some others produce we need to cut any ties with the fossil fuel industry in the closest perspective and the last thing that we are currently running it's a call on a wall street chief executive offices to turn that back on Russian fossil fuel companies right now and we are hopeful they will hear us from the streets where we are and I also just making a final conclusions I would just stress upon that those companies and institutions which we just discussed enabled regime over putting to accumulate the resources it chooses to fund the wars their profits needs to be sased to fund the transition and to support peace building maybe in the form of tax or what other these disadvantage disadvantage for them should be and to remind us that our world is burning and million of people face food and water shortages along with humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine because what's happening on the east of the country in the center of the country is absolutely inhumane and to compare it with climate crisis I cannot say I can say this that this cannot happen without ending our reliance stop of this end of this cannot happen without ending our reliance on the fossil fuels but adding some positivity to that very very gloomy picture which we already have but that's a reality I would like to say that of course better world is possible and better world it's what drives us towards the renewable energy towards clean energy and I have to say that many reports not that many but at least two reports for that came out in 2021 just proves that well has enough potential of renewable energy and if we simply double investments into green technologies and we will trust a bit more to those green technologies that prove the affordability and prove the effectiveness and prove the accessibility even for communities in a very distant distant areas so if we just can trust more we can restore this justice and we can push forward this green transition and the better world is definitely possible I truly believe that we will dismantle these violent systems of oppressions that are underpinning the fossil fuel industry that allows corporations exploit coal coal oil and gas and threaten to our human rights our lives our environment our climate and our freedoms thank you so much thank you for making the time to be with us today and for sharing your perspective and then an invitation again to anyone attending this webinar to please use the q&a icon at the bottom of your screen if you have any questions you want you want to ask to any panelists throughout this webinar we will be taking them in the q&a section towards the end so we're now going to pivot into looking a little bit more into this latest IPTC report that was released on monday and we will be going through those findings but also what they mean for our climate justice movements and demand so we will first have professor Wolfgang Kramer who is an environmental geographer and a global ecologist he's worked at many european universities and has been a contributor to the IPCC since 1992 currently working on the sixth assessment report and then to lead us into kind of translating those findings into what this means for us for movements for demands we will have Assad Rehman executive director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice organization one-on-one Assad is a leading climate justice activist whose work has helped to reframe the climate crisis as a crisis of neoliberal capitalism inequality and racism and he has worked with many social movements both globally and nationally over the last 35 years uh so Wolfgang the floor is yours yes thank you very much Lisa can you hear all hear me you see you sound okay thank you thank you yes yes well I was of course listening to Svetlana there and and of course personally what to say that I'm fully in support of everything everything she said and I'm not supposed to make any reference to things that were being said during the last two weeks of session by the IPCC with government delegations uh online for the so-called approval of the IPCC report but I do want to structure the the limits from there a little bit by saying that when exactly one year ago another Svetlana the head of the Ukrainian delegation announced to us that she was having to leave in the middle of the meeting despite this being an online meeting because of the attack on that day I mean it was that was a moment that I think none of us will ever forget her and we were very pleased to hear her back a few days later we don't know we don't know from where but she insisted that the work must continue of course for precisely all those reasons that have been listed and given by by by this Svetlana present in this meeting so I think I have no official mandate but I'm I'm sure that everyone in the IPCC including including all government delegations there and there really mean all are in full support of the Ukrainian people at this at this stage again no official statement that that's my my personal interpretation of the situation now so you um I I want to talk just a little bit about process for the IPCC one and one reason for that is that I'm somehow sure that most of you already know the key messages that we are that we have been confirming in this particular report I would also say about talk about some of the things that are new and what I've since I only have a few minutes what I want to do is to give you like a an indication of how to of how to read the the report when you when you've downloaded it but first about the process very quickly and I think it's it's really important that that the activist movement understands that that when the IPCC was first established it was a call by governments governments said that we want to come together and have the United Nations support in findings suitable information about the risks associated with climate change it's not some kind of group of scientists have got together and said oh we'll do this or that we know it was a call by governments and this is still something that is called to the operation so the so for example for this particular report we've we've worked for about five years you've maybe seen the the numbers we were 270 people we've evaluated 34,000 scientific publications but the whole point in a way of that is to come to the meeting that we had last week and the week before present the main key findings to government representatives and really to government representatives of all governments in the world and ask them do you understand what we are saying and this do we understand that in practical terms that means that sentence by sentence is projected on the screen and the question is asked do you understand do you hear us and there's a unique opportunity that none of us otherwise has in life and what often comes back from governments is that they say well are you really sure about that or there are some things that we don't understand so we actually work on the text still in with governments but it's not a negotiation procedure it's very important to that to us it is a and communication exercise if you will it's an attempt to clarify the message and to make it even more clear and unequivocal and then at the end and this was formally last Sunday morning there comes a moment when when governments are asked in a consensus decision do you approve of this summary for policymakers and approved means have you understood what we are saying here and so that very moment is crucial for the entire process because from now on for any one of these reports you and I as citizens we can go to our respective governments or international organizations and we can say there's nothing to discuss here you have already know to take a notice of the message what we need to discuss now is what to do and that's really important that it's being understood and it was just to fill that in also it's a very bad idea halfway through this process to kind of leak early drafts because that really actually helps absolutely nobody the draft that was leaked at the time one year ago was radically different from what we have today and and and it's like if you're working on a on an article or on something and somebody sends around an early version of it it doesn't really help you to make a better article the the kind of suspicion at the time was and I'm saying that here so clearly because it came out of the part of the activist movement the suspicion was that everything that goes on is going to be dilution of the message that is absolutely not true I mean if anybody wants to make the comparison now I'm not going to do it but if anybody wants to do it you will see that it's not a diluted message okay enough about that process you also know that last august the first part of the report was published which was about the physics of the climate system and about the scenarios and about the the projections that we have for for the ocean and for the atmosphere and all of that which has basically told us that we had one point one degree and that we are of course do not see that we do not currently see neither a flattening of of the emissions nor of of climate change itself this report was about the vulnerability of ecosystems and people to that change and also about the possibilities for adaptation and since you can all read it let me just just tell you some kind of fundamental news as compared to earlier reports the first one is that much clearer than before ecosystems and biodiversity are seen as a part of the world that is equally important as humanity and that actually interacts with humanity that may sound like a very kind of beautiful statement but it's very real I mean we know that there are very few ecosystems on the planet that are not affected by human action not only agriculture and forestry and fisheries but virtually every place on the planet every ecosystems under some influence from people and and more important there's no human being on the planet that doesn't depend on ecosystems so the the whole analysis has been turned around a little bit from earlier ones in order to point this out to point to the risks for the ecosystems and to point to the risk for people that depend on the ecosystems and that means a lot for climate justice because it it's it is something that all people share on the planet it's not just some some it's not only indigenous people that are living close to nature but they are they too but it's also different industrialized countries who depend to a much larger degree than is usually recognized on on ecosystems second point is that impacts of climate change on ecosystems are observed now they are not some kind of something in the future they are observed now and we have much more information from all over the world to show that basically there is no ecosystem on the planet that is not also affected by climate change so of course affected by many other things too let's not forget that it's forget it's effect they are affected by pollution by unsustainable land use by all these factors climate is not the only one but there's no ecosystem on the planet that is not affected by climate change and in most cases these are negative effects for the future trends there's also nothing really that should surprise you that will surprise you that the tendencies are of course very bad their entire ecosystems that are that are disappearing including the tropical reefs that that have a very high likelihood to be actually exterminated but also ecosystems in the high arctic and in mountain areas and and elsewhere there is a an attempt in the report to to answer a question that we think is coming up now it's actually not being posed very much but we think that as governments or I think as governments recognize that they are not reaching the Paris target which is kind of given you know we all know that they are not going we're not going to stop this day below 1.5 degrees there is going to come up a an argument from governments saying yes we will pass 1.5 but we will have so beautiful technology later in the century that we will come down again and then everything will be good and we have missed Paris a little bit but not so much and now from an ecosystem point of view and livelihoods point of view that is a very bad idea because it essentially means that this would work if ecosystems were like a sponge you know that you can push a little bit and then it comes back but in reality of course as you know if you lose an ecosystem or if you lose much of the carbon store in an ecosystem then this is not going to come back just because the temperatures come down and what's worse is that that while you lose them for many ecosystems for the so-called high carbon ecosystems in the north and in in the boreal zone but also in the tropics while you go into this mode of total destruction you release additional carbon that even with your wonderful technology which were your capture carbon from the atmosphere you will have to capture even more in order to come down to to in order to fulfill your plan of what we call the overshoot that is something that has caused significant debate and we are in early days of scientific understanding of that but it's just the message is just over counting on the overshoot is not a good idea now a few last words about the positive side the another key feature of this report different from earlier ones is that it tries to focus on action not an all climate action because we will have a third report that we'll talk about reduction of emissions this one this report doesn't talk about that but about action for adaptation for improving adaptation and adaptation has basically several important aspects to it first of all it's already ongoing sometimes it's well organized sometimes it's not very well organized it's kind of natural also for people and ecosystems to adapt but there will be limits for that adaptation there will be what we call hard limits for example when you talk about sea level rise then to some degree coast or settlements on the coast can adapt by building seawalls or by by changing in some other way but there's always a hard limit at one point the sea level will have risen so much that you cannot adapt anymore you have to displace yourself so in adaptation not everything can be done but a lot more can be done that is that is so that's the important positive message that there are lots of good practice in areas where we can better adaptation and I just want to mention two one is in the agricultural systems where a switch to what we call agroecology which is a big basically rule book of running farms in a more sustainable way and not depend as much on on fertilizers and pesticides but to make farms function as an internal system that's more stable and more resilient there's a lot of potential in this and the report gives many examples for that and the other area where adaptation is possible and ongoing but could go on much more much faster is cities urban development cities have the great advantages that they are dynamic anyway that all over the world cities are changing all the time in in developing countries many cities that we have in 2050 they are not even built yet because we have and we welcome that we have a growth in in in young people but this means an opportunity this means that those cities that are in in transformation or even being built they can be made climate resilient and and that is a keyword of the report the climate resilient development and it gives many positive examples and I think the climate activist movement can use the report as as an inspiration is not something that you you you can use to to explain why action is necessary of course that as well as well that was the first part of what I said but you can also use it as a source of inspiration for positive action and we've really tried hard to to insist on that yes indeed I should I should come to a conclusion thank you Lisa I could talk a lot more and I'm happy to answer any any questions maybe at the end of the of the session but thanks again for for inviting me for me it's it's actually an honor and I'm really really proud to speak to you all thank you thank you so much Volkeng without further ado I'm just going to pass over to Athad thank you and good afternoon morning evening wherever you are joining in the world to see people from every corner of the world with us this afternoon thanks also to Lisa and Nico and all the 350 crew for organizing this event and the interpreters for ensuring language justice and and Solidarity Svetlana and the people of Ukraine and all those facing occupation and war from Palestine, Yemen, Western Tsar and West Papua and the countless Black and Brown people in Ukraine who are currently seeking safety whose lives are not deemed as valuable as others and and of course to Volkeng for setting out what the climate science is behind the report the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the report as an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership and for many especially those on the front lines of injustice this report simply reinforces everything we have been saying for decades that incremental siloed climate action is failing that delayed means death that every second counts and every degree matters that the crisis was already here and that we're not all in the same boat when it comes to those who are responsible for the crisis who are being already most impacted who will be most impacted in the future when and why and this report includes you know dire warnings that already half the world approximately 3.3 to 3.6 billion people are already highly vulnerable to climate change and that potentially up to 75 percent of the global population could be exposed to life threatening climate conditions due to heat and humidity by 2100 the report is also comprehensive and and just covers so many issues that we can't do justice to the work of all those who contributed to the report and you know it covers everything from the 150 biggest cities have seen a 500 percent increase in extreme heat since 1980 that already 1.5 to two and a half billion people are affected by water scarcity that is going to increase as we breach the 1.5 and head towards two degrees that many of our ecosystems are already at the point of no return and that at 1.5 degrees we will see the demise of overwhelming majority of coral reefs irreversible loss of glaciers and polar ice that our human and natural systems are interconnected and that these critical ecosystems underpin the lives and livelihoods of the poorest people from everything from access to fresh water to food production it also sets out very clearly that it's Africa Central America South Asia and small islands who will be most impacted and that those who are poor who are black brown women in indigenous are 15 times more vulnerable than those in rich countries like the UK where I'm based and that the current climate plans will lead to hundreds of millions of more people suffering from extreme weather impacts food shortages escalated economic damages and natural systems collapses one study in the report you know estimates that there's been nearly a 10 percent yield reduction in four major crops in the last century and this report states that climate change is already affecting and core all dimensions of food security and as a result there is high confidence that the number of people at risk of hunger malnourishment and diet diet related mortality will increase in the future and those projections you know range up to 80 million compared to a world with no climate change but again really important nearly 80 percent of those at risk population are projected to occur in Africa in Asia and that rising temperatures are like are going to unleash millions of tons of carbon as forests die back and we have permafrost flowing equivalent to 15 years of greenhouse gas emissions for the climate justice movement it's clear and it's always been clear that this crisis is an intersected crisis of economic racial gender and social justice that it's our systems of exploited ecosystems resource extraction promotion of unsustainable economic growth that is driving the crisis and determining who faces the worst impact but as the report states and i quote vulnerability at different spatial levels is exasperated by inequity and marginalization linked to gender ethnicity low income or combinations thereof especially for indigenous people and local communities and it's this inequity and marginalization that is recognized that is due to historical systems of injustice that shape the climate crisis and it may very well be the first time that the IPCC report mentions this but report states present development challenges causing high vulnerability are influenced by historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism so this report is very very clear it states that many of the impacts over 1.5 will be irreversible as Wolfgang said and yet we all know we're currently heading towards a warming of at least 2.7 degrees and as Wolfgang again said we have governments banking on net zero by 2050 overshoots and trying to dial back temperatures through carbon dioxide removal through unproven and risky technologies yesterday's IPCC conference for those who might have missed it it was stated very clearly they said the world we live in today is not the world we will live in in 10 or 20 years and any further delay in concerted global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure secure a liveable and sustainable future for us so that is the world we live in uh so what is the world we want to live in and how do we get that I think for us as the climate justice movements our demands must be clear and they are not only about mitigation but clearly also about adaptation so we must fight for 1.5 rooted in equity and climate justice that matters and we all know that the carbon budget for 1.5 could be gone by the end of this decade and even two degrees at risk in the coming decades so reiterating our demands about real zero cuts by 2030 by rich countries and no more play again to the global side has to be a central component of our demands urgency as you've heard we have hard limits to our adaptive measures so of course we must continue exposing fallacy of net zero and the dangerous solutions and it was shocking to see of course even in this report that you have mentioned of solar radiation as well as of course ccs ccs capture of storage as what we all know is a license to continue to pollute so of course all of us as climate justice movements of course we have must continue to fight for an end to fossil fuels and those who finance them and and fully supportive of the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty but our fight has got to go beyond say no to fossil fuels and demand everyone has the right to energy actual access to public early owned renewable energy systems and an end to the energy poverty for half the world that are denied that most basic of rights and that means we can't simply be saying a hundred percent renewable energy if that is based on the same model of extraction injustice as fossil fuels and we have to make the right to food and foods of remedy a cornerstone of our demands and not just as an afterthought this report sets out very very clearly and we know as Wolfgang you said the most effective adaptive measure and industrial food systems land rights and farmer and peasant led agroecology it also is very very clear in this report we're not fighting for the unmet promise of 100 billion in the UNFCCC but financed to the scale needed which untied estimated would be at least about one and a half trillion a year to meet both the climate and inequality crisis so yes the fight for loss and damage is absolutely critical and it's important for all of everybody to know that even in this summary report the summary for policymakers the US and other rich countries did their best to take out and minimize the language around loss and damage and any potential mention of their liability so as we head towards COP 27 we don't want loss and damage dialogues we actually as climate justice demands must be demanding climate reparations cancellation of global debt wealth taxes and fixing this global economy which is we all noise rigged to benefit the very ones destroying our planet for profit now some in the climate movement when they look at these reports and have been saying to the climate justice movement you know you've got to be pragmatic and go for incremental change and not call for system change I think this report says very very clearly to me how wrong that approach is how deadly that approaches and those who have been arguing that how complicit they have been in this failure to act so climate justice can't no longer be an empty slogan something for people to stick on banners or leaflets climate justice must mean adopting a radical anti-colonial lens to look at this crisis and fixing this crisis is only possible through that radical transformative action so we've had scientists who said we need and this report again talks about inequality and poverty they said we need a new social compact that addresses poverty as well as climate so our climate justice demands must include those adaptive measures universal public health systems living wages and workers rights land rights for indigenous communities the right to food and renewable energy the right to decent housing and health all of those are there in that report as the IPCC call for Ed Carr said just tweaking our social and economic systems is not going to get us to a climate resilient future we need transformational demands everything for our food our energy our transformation our transportation but also our politics and society so we know that there are major challenges present for us in terms of for both this present and future and that is all based around political will so support for this change of course means making sure that the most vulnerable are heard and again this report says very very clearly that those most impacted have to be at the decision making table to decide the solutions that are needed and be part of of that political process but it also means about building the social license and pressure we need I look at this report not as a I'm going to not as a moment of a doom but as actually as a moment of hope because it's clear that cooperation and solidarity is key for this decade and that it's political pressure from people like us and from our movements that will make a difference so normally do we need to meet demands that meet the science of the urgency to tackle this climate crisis and I'm going to wrap up here now at least my takeaways it's absolute time for a radical global green new deal committed to an actual response to 1.5 tackling inequality and poverty living with inflammatory limits and undoing systems of injustice no one can deny that it's not needed but that means we have to have that vision of the world we want to create and the demands that get there but most critically of all we need to think and talk about how do we build our collective power this report sets out very clearly in my mind that change is coming that is now inevitable the only question that is up for debate is what kind of change who will benefit and who will be sacrificed and in that fight there's only one side we can be on the side of people the side of planet the side and the side of justice thank you thank you Asad thanks both of you I feel really bad time checking on on such inspiring contributions so thank you Wolfgang for kind of helping us go through the findings of the IPCC report and and what they actually mean and thank you Asad for as ever speaking with so much truth and power and so I'm going to take this opportunity to pause remind everyone on this webinar to use the Q&A icon if you have any questions for or speaker and to invite the speakers who are going to contribute now to speak slowly and clearly so that interpreters can follow and so in in the next section we are going to hear from we're going to hear perspectives from different people on what why should we still have hope and what does people power look like and mean to you so we're going to hear from three different people I'm going to introduce our first speaker on this Tasnim Eseb Tasnim who is currently the Executive Director of Climate Action Network International she was also an anti apartheid activist from an early age in different capacities until the democratic elections of 94 and during this time she was also a student and youth activist a teacher and a trade unionist and is now a very cool part of our climate justice movement so Tasnim the floor is yours thank you very much Lisa and greetings to everybody let me add my voice of solidarity to the peoples of Ukraine and to thank Sudlana for her input into this discussion important input into this discussion today and for her taking the time to be with us under such conditions so much appreciation for that so you know I think the previous speakers have really laid the conspelt out the context and the findings of the IPCC report and Assad has very you know clearly spelled out what the implications of this report is for the work we need to do as movements going forward and so Lisa I know that I've been asked to talk about you know what can we do in terms of building the hope and Assad also refers to this that you know we shouldn't see this as a moment of despair but of hope I would want to say that we would need to at this time really have a healthy balance between maintaining and building hope and having anger both are important to keep people mobilized and galvanized and for us to be very clear that we cannot shy away from telling the truth that is the worst thing you can ever do in terms of building people's power so we have to be honest and we have to be truthful when we do build what is the only hope in my view people's power the IPCC report refers to historical injustice and and as Assad is extremely excited about the fact that for the first time in an IPCC report the C word was used you know it's always a very uncomfortable thing but a science report now refers to what we've been saying you know is the root of much of this crisis colonialism and so certainly we have to look at this when we deal with hope and anger we have to look both at the kind of historical injustice and inequity but also the current injustice and inequity and we cannot see the IPCC report in a context that is absent from the wider context that we are all living through and so when we think about this report and what it means in terms of the impacts of people and again those who are most vulnerable and those exactly who have been least responsible for this crisis which is the fundamental injustice then certainly we have to look at what's been happening to us in recent times we have the climate crisis we get hit by the COVID pandemic the COVID pandemic lays bare all of those fault lines in society of the injustice in an inequity and lays bare which is a horror the fact that rich nations have demonstrated that in the face of global crises like this they would rather take care of their own and their own self-interest and the interests of profit-making corporates that's the track record in the pandemic and that's why we have vaccine apartheid but then we now also dealing with this war in Ukraine and again we see that dimension of you know the world especially what is called Western democracies mobilizing as they should justifiably in support of Ukraine recognizing that the same level of effort of support etc is not being given to those who have been living through occupation and invasion and conflict and largely again in the developing world in the global south now these and at the same time all of this is happening and we see increasing inequality right and we are told about you know billionaires that are making so much wealth in a time of so much suffering now you tell me you know do we only enter into this and build people's power off the back of false optimism or do we use this moment also to be truthful about the horror that we are experiencing especially those who are black and brown in the world we just have to be truthful and I believe that truthfulness is where we can be hopeful because it is what is you know necessary to build people's power to organize not just mobilize but to organize people across the world so that the kind of solidarity that we need and that Assad refers to this international cooperation that is not coming from our governments but would of necessity have to come from the people across the world the impacts that are being spoken about in the IPCC report of course as Assad says has been felt and mainly felt by those marginalized communities and peoples and especially in the global south but we also know that the impacts are being felt across the world including in the global north and here we need to understand that even in the developed world those who feel those impacts the hardest are once again marginalized communities you know blackened and and people of color communities indigenous community so let us be very clear why we need that solidarity and so just a quick one to say we as part of this hopefulness of course we need to build our power across the world as people standing together recognizing we have an important fight to win together not just on the climate front across the board in terms of justice but secondly we not only have to build power but we have to be far more smart about how we use power that's where we are at now we really you know many of I am leading a big civil society network we we not very good at actually being sharp about tactics and we tried this though in the Glasgow cop I want to say one of the big issues aside for us is loss and damage finance as you know as a network with all of you we went into Glasgow even though it wasn't on the agenda we proved that we could put it on the agenda you know we always say but that's the agenda let's set agendas we set the agenda and we got the attention on loss and damage finance no matter how much the UK government didn't want that attention or the US government we got the attention and so it was an important lesson for all of us in the movement of how not only do we build power but how we should use power not just in the cops but generally across the board in the work that we do at national levels it is in that united big united front that we were able to actually use our power to force an agenda and to get a bit of movement now I said not dialogues as you said now we must use our power because this this issue of loss and damage finance cannot be ignored cannot be blurred with all these other issues that we'll tend to put on our tables because what sex take is the lives once again of the poorest in the world those who are suffering inequality and massive injustice it is our duty our moral duty to respond to that need and so in Africa at the cop we have to land a decision on a finance facility for loss and damage there can't be anything else we can't come out of that cop with nothing in hand another dialogue and things kick down the line this IPCC report is that signal for urgency let's use our power that's the hope we have let's build power use power and do it more and more with courage with audacity with boldness that to me they say and all of you is what I see hoping that's the only thing I see hoping people's power and using that power to bring about the radical change that Assad so clearly spoke about thank you for listening to me and I'm sorry for going over time but thanks for having me thank you Kazim I think I will come back to the recording of your contribution whenever I'm feeling a bit hopeless thank you so much I'm now going to go over to our next speaker on hope and people power so I'm going to introduce Amanda Costa who is a climate activist UN youth ambassador Brazil's delegate to the G20 youth summit and who is also the founder of the Instituto Perifa Sistentavel apologies for my bad Portuguese so Amanda the floor is yours thank you please thank you everyone my name is Amanda I am a youth climate activist and I'm very glad to be here to share this message and to say that as a black woman I need to make my voice to be heard but before I talk a little bit about what I want to show to you I'd like to to make sure that everyone it's here everybody's listening everyone is paying attention this message because for a long time when we are a lot of time sitting in front of a computer sometimes we are like looking at our things and it's first but now that I call the expectation of everyone I want to read an article that I prepared last year so I'd like to invite every single person that's here to close your eyes and to dream with me we are living in a very very very hard times we are in the middle of a crisis we are in the middle of a war but as a youth as a black girl I want to invite you to dream because I believe that our work can be construct first in the dreams so let's go letter of intents to beauty a harmonious word for all planet earth lives words seen the ink blows the pore of nature and humanity deals in harmony with all living beings the capitalist patriarchal system is in the past there is no more exploitation or subalternity we managed to develop a model based on racial equity social justice and political engagement where everyone has space for engagement mobilization and participation it started as an utopia a distant dream created in our imagination however it happened we made a structural return that allowed us to stop surviving and start living we have a beautiful pleasant and evident life in this life everyone it was like it works with purpose and invests quality time with the people they love this changing was also internal in which food was an essential part of the process we learned about the importance of organic meals and replaced the monocultures and large states with agroforests managed by small farms we put free food distribution points in our cities with beauty at real sustainable fests in addition to sharing food we learned to share love we share fears we externalize our joys and we always seek equality fraternity and freedom in this world there is no place for oppression power struggles are in the past all have understood their place in social transformation and are committed to the common godly the change is starting in our heart and spill over the whole society we learned to encourage the reverse circle practice sustainable consumption and develop a clean and renewable energy system for every home on our planet in addition we are able to provide access to free and quality health service for the entire population encourage activities based on preventing medicine and cultivates good habits practically physical exercise is regulatory and it's healthy in great to see how much we are involved woman black people and different youths played as an essential role in this transformation they brought the needs and demands that helped the green decision makers to legislate for the development of the different nations of the globe during this transition we understood how to dialogue with the different and decide to seek common interest transforming individual goals into collective goals that aim and everyone progress our education has succeeded we have abundant hierarchy and passivity and found horizontally creativity and self-direction schools adopt teaching from different source using methods and data from the five continents latin america north america asia africa and europe with quality education we are able to overcome the challenges that market are best climate health democracy economic social and environmental crisis we reverse this scenario and move it to a sustainable planet everyone is trying to see themselves as a part of the solution they think critically and choose to act every human being understands their responsibility with the social structure of our world it used to be something revolutionary but now it's part of our reality we develop an inclusive collaborative and sustainable planet now i'd like to ask to everyone to open your eyes and start to think how fair we are from this reality we are in the middle of a war last week a friend of mine sent me a message asked me if i can share uh what is happening in kran and why is this happening why we are living so fair from the letter that i read it to you a role in all of this situation how can we start change the ipcc report says that we need to change right now because if it don't my generation we will not have time we will not have future we will not have food we will not have cows we will not have a quality life so what is our role in this transformation what do you need to do to solve all these problems in my opinion it's not just about money we have enough money but we need to put this money in the right place we need to put this money in the countries of global south we need to empower other black girls other indigenous girls to be in the decision-making space time to wait the white men the decision makers to decide their lives so everyone who is here starts of this transformation is start to think with yourself what could you do to accelerate this process i don't know i am doing part of my job i have perifas sintável with and to mobilize brazilian black youth to be part of these debates to participate in the decision-making pro process last year we brought four black women to copy 26 to be sitting with the decision makers is to put our demands on the table but it's not enough we don't need just four black girls of a global south sitting with these decision makers we need to empower all the youth of the black youth of indigenous youth we need to give value to the grassroots the change is local but who think this change happened second point we need to combat the pathetical white supremacist capitalist system based on exploitation dispute this war is a consequence of this model we need to change the model we need to accelerate we cannot just tolerate what is happening and the third we need to capacity young people to be in the decision maker space open my vulnerability to you guys it's very hard to be here my english is not perfect i do a lot of mistakes but i am course in law to open my computer and to send my message to you other black brazilian girls they don't so what can you do to capacity them to be here and to conclude my message i'd like to read a very famous brazilian right her name is carolina maria de jesus she says english life is like a book only after reading it do we know what it contains and when we are at the end of life we know how life went mine so far has been black black is my skin black is where i live we need to talk about environmental racism we need to darken the climate debate so i would like to know are you prepared to make it diversity much more than a pretty speech thanks so much thank you thank you so much amanda and your english is great absolutely no apologies around this and thank you for your your truth and your powerful words um so i'm not gonna introduce or last speaker for this plot on hope and people power um so francisco javier vera manzanar is a 12 year old climate and life activist in colombia who is a strong advocate for the inclusion of children's voices in the big discussions of our time and especially for the voices of children in the global south um now before i pass on to francisco i'm just gonna flag that francisco will be speaking in spanish uh so um english speakers please also make sure that you click the globe icon at the bottom of your screen uh to access english uh interpretation whilst francisco speak uh so francisco uh the floor is yours bueno pues muy buenos tardes días es donde estén noche también pues ya me presentaron mi nombre es francisco vera manzanares tengo 12 años de edad y soy de colombia y soy activista climatic y en defensa la vida en mi país en latino america pues primero que todo agradecer les por permitir estar un niño que evidentemente pues no muchos niños alzan su voz o tienen los espacios para hacerlo y pues bueno primero eso gracias también a 350 grados por la posibilidad de eso de permitir espacios para que todos podamos alzar nuestras voces de generaciones muy atrás hasta nuestras generaciones del presente en yo quiero pues como le hemos hecho la mayoría enfatizar el tema justamente ni siquiera tanto del informe bueno si mi intervención va a ir en torno a a este informe del pese el set informe pero también enfatizar el tema de la guerra que ya muchos no han nombrado no yo creo que para empezar eso no que no sólo hay que ver la guerra de ucrania y de rusia como un conflicto o como el único conflicto que hay ha sido el más mediático no pero realmente en el mundo hay bastantes conflictos hay miles de conflictos a lo largo del mundo que en realidad siempre en donde sean sea en mi amar en la misma asia o sea mi país para no ir muy lejos pues siempre van a poner de lado y principalmente los intereses del poder no que van a terminar afectando pues los derechos del pueblo y de los ciudadanos no yo creo que eso es lo más importante para destacar que estos conflictos bélicos lo único que nos generan son son caos ruina ni sella a nuestra humanidad y como lo dije el de ucrania no es el único lo podemos reflejar en en armenia serba llan en yemen y ahora es obita en el sael con los piratas en somalia o la republica el sara ocho y occidental en la capital que hay en mi amar en las dos coreas o pues justamente en mi mismo país en donde durante este año más de 30 defensores personas ciudadanos de colombianos han sido asesinados defensores de la vida y del medio ambiente que ponen y que dedican pues y su tiempo y su vida a defender el medio ambiente y la sociedad le responde de esa manera es decir que yo creo que debemos ver este conflicto esta guerra no sólo como una guerra declarada entre nosotros y una guerra también cruel encusta con el medio ambiente porque por medio de todos estos conflictos estamos financiando la un modelo está activista de los recursos naturales un modelo neoliberal que explota la naturaleza pero que también explota alguna manera pues al pueblo no y a sus ciudadanos que el medio a los niños a los mujeres y a todos los afectados que terminan hay a todos los y demás y por otra parte también es importante destacar que esa guerra en contra del medio ambiente que hemos declarado ya desde hace mucho debe terminar y yo creo que por medio de esta pequeña charla hemos visto varias formas de como acabarla por medio de la educación nuestras herramientas para combatir el también primatico de encenes esas mismas de educación el poder como lo vismos y la mismísima financiación que yo creo que en vez de estar financiando guerras financiando masacres debemos estar financiando entre naciones entre países entre gobiernos una cooperación internacional que vaya de la mano para asignir este problema que amenaza con nuestra existencia yo lo que más quiero destacar es que finalmente esto no nos va a servir a nada de nada a los únicos que le interesa la guerra es al poder y a los gobiernos y que ahí los que te han afectado son los niños los más vulnerables los los que nuestra sociedad históricamente han estado marginalizados que nunca se les tiene la posibilidad o se les da la posibilidad de alzar su voz de ser escuchados o de por lo menos garantizar la paz y los derechos entonces eso que en vez de estar financiando guerras debemos financiar un futuro y presente mejor para esta generación que está siendo tan afectada y tan y tan sufrida si se puede decir tan afectada por el talentamiento global y es que yo creo que ni siquiera debemos pensar que el cambio primático es una consecuencia para el futuro sino que es que ya en este momento ya hay gente que no tiene agua y hay gente que no tiene que comer y hay gente que tiene que migrar en estos momentos niños de mi misma edad en el sudeste asiático en todas las costas de africa de america que tienen que huir por las consecuencias del calentamiento global por eso es que hoy quienes tenemos la posibilidad de ejercer un activismo a favor de la vida debemos hacer todo lo posible porque desde los gobiernos las empresas y los ciudadanos pongamos todos los medios y las herramientas no a favor de una guerra no a favor de una una guerra entre nosotros sino también con el medio ambiente y con la biodiversidad sino pongamos todas las herramientas a favor de la vida y del medio ambiente que finalmente nuestra mayor preocupación y que cuando hagamos eso nos vamos a dirigir hacia un futuro y unos resultados mucho más reconfortantes mucho más inspiradores realmente toda la hora tiene su fruto y si hoy nos comprometemos no solo como ciudadanos sino que también nos comprometemos a exigirle a los gobiernos que dejen de declarar la guerra medio ambiente por intereses económicos como el oro negro es decir el petróleo o por la ganadería o por cualquier economía que sea o por el transporte más bien de el cambio de hacer esto debemos es promocionar e impulsar todas las voces desde los territorios las voces de los niños de las niñas de las personas de color ahorita lo vimos de las mujeres de los pueblos originarios indígenas que son tan importantes desde su visión fundamental primordial y ancestral y realmente como lo decía yo como creo que cada labor tiene sus frutos pues si hoy nos comprometemos con una acción climática ya y nos comprometemos a ejercer nuestra ciudadanía para la vida y a pedirle a los gobiernos que gobiernan para la vida vamos a tener un planeta que no se dirige hacia el calentamiento global y hacia el calentamiento desmedido hacia el calentamiento alarmante peligroso vertinoso de la temperatura porque finalmente sabemos que si no hacemos esto vamos a llegar a nuestro fin así así es es la extinción masiva no es una realidad o sea ya está sucediendo entonces es necesario hacer esto pero yo creo que aquí no es importante destacar que ustedes hagan algo que ya están haciendo sino lo que hay que destacar es que debemos es más bien presionar por medio del poder que tiene la ciudadanía a los gobiernos para lo que dije antes para que creen políticas a favor de la vida y para que dejemos de estar financiando guerras que lo único que hacen es acabarnos a nosotros mismos y atacar a nuestra misma humanidad es que no creo que haya especie más tonta en el planeta tierra que sea capaz de casar a otras especies por instinto sino de matarse a sí misma matar a sus congéneros que es una frase una palabra muy importante congéneros venimos de la misma semilla del mismo animal de la misma célida y a pesar de eso se nos olvida que somos hermanos y que quienes hoy se unan por la lucha y la defensa de la paz no sólo van a estar usando por una causa colectiva en favor de la paz entre nosotros sino también pues con la paz en con el medio ambiente no con la universidad y con los recursos naturales pero esto también debe conllevar un cambio social muy importante no porque es que el cambio climático sabemos que no es ajeno a la realidad social y política del mundo por lo menos en mi país la gente pobre que no tiene posibilidad por justamente el cambio climático las inundaciones los delizamientos las precipitaciones más agravadas no tiene la posibilidad de llegar a un hospital no tiene la posibilidad de ir a estudiar por las trochas que hay por el camino y yo conozco ya muchos es la realidad que se vive en mi mismo país y no sólo en colombia sino es que todos los territorios del mundo entonces también es eso que la justicia climática también debe ir en paralelo a la lucha por la justicia social porque sin una no puede haber otra necesitamos de las dos de los derechos humanos para garantizar el medio ambiente en un ambiente sano entonces yo creo que eso es lo más importante a destacar y por cierto pues obvio obvio destacar la participación de todas las voces como lo dije anteriormente de todas las voces de los niños por ejemplo de los niños no sólo del norte de europa o de estados unidos sino también los niños de asia de áfrica que muy bien los podemos ver en este mapa de acá o del mismo contriente de america y no sólo los niños de la ciudad sino también los niños del campo de la realidad que quedan pues olvidados de alguna forma no marginalizados e invisibilizados como lo dije anteriormente en medio de todos estos conflictos entonces yo creo que ese es el principal mensaje que hoy tratemos de poner todas nuestras herramientas hacia el camino de la paz y de una justicia a favor de la vida porque finalmente cuando nos referimos a la vida no sólo es la vida de la vida sino la vida de nosotros obviamente por eso es que ese concepto integral tan general es tan hermoso y tan bonito la vida la vida entonces pues yo básicamente quería transmitir ese mensaje y agradecerles a todos los que hacen su trabajo por mi generación por pensar en sus nietos y por pensar en los nietos de sus nietos que lamentablemente si no hacemos algo ya pues no van a tener un planeta en donde vivir porque no hay planeta postamente entonces muchas gracias por eso a todos y bueno pues que la lucha por la vida continúe pues finalmente los intereses como lo dije de la guerra en contra de nosotros y del medio ambiente sólo benefician al poder y oprimen al pueblo muchas gracias francisco por tus palabras inspiradoras y un gusto que también me permitan estar aquí como niño hablando y representando la voz de otros niños ok i hope everyone feels just as inspired as i do right now it's it's been a lot to process so much that i have lost track of time and we now have run out of time for questions but we promise that we will send you materials and the recording and all of this and i think it was worth allowing ourselves to just indulge in listening to our speakers uh fully um i am now gonna pass over to uh someone else uh to bring us back together and close this webinar uh so i'm gonna pass to luisa noibauer uh who is a 25 years old uh german climate activist and an active organizer with pride is for future germany and he's also the author of several books on climate change and activism uh so luisa please take the floor and help us close this space yes thank you so much for passing it on hello i am calling in from hamburg in germany i was on the chain earlier and i thought i would just quickly wrap up here and i just found it's quite impossible to to pull together what we've heard so i will just as a as a quick summary as a as a quick run through and share three thoughts and of things that we're discussed today about incredible speakers who gave such important insights in such difficult times right now and first of all i think what we're seeing right now given given the war that is happening just a few hundred kilometers from where i'm right now and we're seeing a war that is deeply intertwined with fossil fuel system with the military complex with capitalism imperialism and the the patriarchy and we're seeing that something that is often called intersectionality that's often rated down and it's making things very complicated is actually our lens right now to the root causes of the problems and we're seeing right now that we're seeing a violent conflict that was so incredibly talked about by our first speaker is is is is rooted to many other of the environmental and inequality problems we are facing and we're seeing that understanding the complexity is not necessarily making us speechless but opening our eyes to what is right in front of us and what is the solution and one sentence mentioned by our speaker in the beginning really and stuck out to me it was people outside the Ukraine can fight for sustainable peace by fighting for a fossil fuel world and that is something that really you know summarizes right now where we are at and that is where we are seeing how truthfully looking at what's in front of us how connecting the dots how understanding what a real solution or what are the greenwash solution as well as you know what i've talked about what are the solutions that trend pretend to be solutions while actually fueling other crises while actually counting on something that won't protect anyone and is important right now is asked from us right now so we're seeing how complexity it can be freeing can be supporting acknowledging and admiring and inhaling the the dots that we need to connect right now is something that is very much asked from us and secondly i think what we are we saw all the way through especially when we came to hope when we came to urgent access we're seeing that the categories of impossible and possible aren't really counting anymore what we heard from the IPCC report and is is a world that would you would consider to be impossible when you were to hear from it from from the first time how would human kind how would the western world how would possibly industries create a world that is so severely harming everything that depends on it how would that happen and you would always you know if you would hear the story about societies and especially the western colonialist system have destroyed and harmed and ecosystem livelihood and caused inequalities to such an incredible amount you would always consider it to be impossible you would think well someone would have stopped it someone would have stepped up someone would have you know made sure this wouldn't happen you would consider the whole scenario that Antonio Guterres you know has commented on so harshly you would consider that to be an impossible thing to happen but it happened and this means though that what is possible now fundamentally changed and it's it's possibly one of the one of the big challenges that's ahead that people are trained to aim for to dream just about what is already considered possible but we need to drastically expand this frame to think outside of what is considered possible and fight for what is actually not just possible in a in a literal sense but what is needed what is what is necessary what we want and and what we are working towards and that is I think when we are coming to this complex of crises of of the complex of hope of the question what drives us in a time where one crisis is crashing over the other where people affected where people are affected everywhere where vulnerable communities have such a hard time to to to restore and see that solidarity is something that is lacking in many many cases we are seeing and I think that this may be on a closing note here one of the one of the big things to remember that there is an alternative to crisis fatigue there is an alternative to resignation and that is not just radical hope that is not just resistance but it is also the knowledge that there is something like crisis muscle and this crisis muscle it grows in in times of crisis it grows when we are challenged it grows when we acknowledge that there's a community around that we can count on that counts on us and that is there for us in times of crisis that grows in solidarity that grows beyond itself when times times and and crisis hit and this is something that I think you know can very much help us to to to overcome and to to see through the madness right in front of us and then finally of course we're seeing and I think all of us speaker might just very clear this is just the beginning of a time of of people rising up of radical action of a radical and and loving and peaceful fight for equality against against the systems of oppression against the oppressors themselves against of what is taking away lives and perspectives and so I am right on this note I would I will close it tomorrow I'm very happy to I'm very happy to point on that we are starting with mass peace and climate justice strikes across the globe and as a as an answer to a emergency appeal issued by financial future in Ukraine in Hamburg where I am right now and I'm sorry for the lack of the sound quality I'm a little change station tomorrow in Hamburg and in other places across the world schools will be closed for children and youths to come to the streets to to connect the dots between climate justice and peace which of course is intertwined as ever and this is this is where we where we're starting from and what we're going from and what we're taking from and yeah and for that I would like to thank all of you for your long attention for all the words that were in the chat a just to talk about adding captions to a video that will be uploaded thanks for all the enthusiasm in the chat or the open eyes and the open minds and the open hearts here which we so desperately and necessarily need in these times and thanks of course to everyone behind this everyone organizing this and yeah everyone contributing and spreading the word about what's at stake and most importantly what we're going to do about this thank you Lisa and another final round of thank you to all of us speakers for your time for your power for your truth and for all the inspiration and we will be sharing recordings and materials very soon with everyone who attended thank you again for making the time in your day and have a great rest of your day wherever you are