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School strike week 223. Today we are 636 young people in @auroramalet who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action. Therefore we now marched from the parliament to the court.
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem @auroramalet
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Today on Black Friday is the perfect day to sue the state over its insufficient climate policies.
So that’s what we did.
See you in court!
#Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem
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We are 636 young people in @auroramalet who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action.
”When the state carries out climate policy that threatens our human rights, it breaks the law.”
#aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem
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2/2 Everyone can help and donate money to Jåhkågaska Sami community's fight to prevent the exploitations on their lands! All donations, big or small, are welcome and needed. #DefendTheDefenders
Find out more about this and how to donate here:
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For the last 12 years the Jåhkågaska Sami community has been defending its grazing lands by resisting this iron-ore mine. By doing so they have been safeguarding what keeps us all safe: biodiverse forests, intact carbon stock, clean water and air. 1/2
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Without any binding commitments to rapidly and immediately reduce greenhouse gases, the world stands no chance to deliver on the 1,5°C limit, and by doing so minimising risks of uprooting the life supporting systems we all depend on and endangering countless human lives.
#COP27
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Sverige motsätter sig skapandet av en fond för klimatskadestånd och försvårar därmed förhandlingarna på #COP27 . Den här fonden skulle ge avgörande stöd för de mest drabbade – det är en fråga om liv och död för otaliga människor.
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”Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels.
That's more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries.”
"If you want to address malaria, you don't invite the mosquitoes”
#COP27
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A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.
We know which ones we need to hold accountable for the climate crisis. twitter.com/Oxfam/status/1…
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There is no climate justice without social justice and human rights. 4/4
Read more here: copcivicspace.net/petition/
#FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll #COP27 #ClimateJustice
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Human rights and climate movements are stronger when we stand in solidarity together. Then we can also successfully push those in power to live up to significantly increased adaptation finance and immediately, drastically reduced greenhouse gas emissions. 3/4
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One of these prisoners is Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is now on a water strike since the beginning of COP27.
A system that doesn't address the needs for climate justice and securing human rights is a system that has failed everyone – we need to keep both in mind. 2/4
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During COP27, we urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those held simply for peacefully exercising their human rights, implementing criteria set by local NGOs for these releases: fairness, transparency, inclusiveness and urgency. 1/4
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”We are still here, and we are not planning on going anywhere. Young people all over the world are stepping up, showing that our leaders messed with the wrong generation.”
My full speech from The Climate Event at Southbank Centre this Sunday is here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ropBOw…
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The climate deniers and delayers are so desperate and feel so threatened that they simply make up their own “quotes” from pure lies and fantasies. This is what I have said about systems and ideologies:
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We need a loss and damage finance facility. We need climate justice. We need action.
Time is running out, which is why decision makers need to step up at #COP27
#GenerateAction ⏰ @CYPavilion
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This video was made for the first round of the Brazilian elections, but is still equally relevant today.
So much is at stake in this election – for the whole world. #Eleicoes2022 twitter.com/thejuicemedia/…
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I want to send a massive thank you to all the contributors for your invaluable expertise and stories, as well as to everyone who made this possible! And a special thanks to my fantastic editors Chloe Currens and Cristopher Richards.
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I will not earn any money from this book as my copyright belongs to the Greta Thunberg Foundation. So all royalties go to charity.
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With over 100 incredible contributors – experts, activists and authors – it highlights many of the different faces of the crises we face, and aims to connect the dots between them.
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Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm