COP29/SCAN!’S ACTION PLAN
Getting Perspective
Many will agree that this year’s COP was a disappointment and even a failure. Despite pressure to limit the number of badges for Big Oil and Gas, including our own postcard campaign, their lobby and a lack of political will from developed countries in the Global North “won” the day.
Click the buttons below to read a number of analyses of the outcomes.
Inside Climate News
Environmental Defence
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Open Letter on COP Reform
COP29/Why Should We Care?
The leaflet shown in part makes a compelling case for Canadians to watch with care the issues discussed at the next COP 29 (Conference of the Parties), to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11-22, 2024. We urge you to download the PDF leaflet and share photocopies or digital copies.
To download the leaflet …
COP29: Staying Informed and Connected
The COP29 section of the CAN/Rac homepage is very informative, with dates of events happening at COP. To view it …
The Government of Canada website has a page devoted to our delegation to COP. To find out more …
The UN Climate Change COP29 webpage.provides regular updates on the conference. To view the page ….
Environmental Defense has created a page with“Everything You Need to Know About COP29.” To view the page …
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty campaign is represented at COP 29 and providing important updates. View them here …
Debriefed has created a detailed summary of the early days of the conference. To view the update …
The International Institute for Sustainable Development is keeping a close watch on COP29. To view the page …
The Government of Canada “reaffirms its commitment to global climate action and remains determined to keep 1.5 °C alive.” To view its statement ….
For summaries of each day’s activities, click HERE
Please feel free to add links to important updates to the COP29 posts on our Twitter/X account
Actions and Events
Candles for COP29/November 15-17
For the Love of Creation is hosting its annual Candles for COP29 campaign from November 15-17. Communities are invited to host candlelight vigils that offer space for reflection and action during the middle weekend of COP29. Visit the website to learn more and see if there is a vigil happening in your area on the map.
KAIROS Canada Video Release
Last week, KAIROS Canada released a short video titled Coming Together for Climate Justice on Loss and Damage. This video dives into the urgent issue of Loss and Damage funding for vulnerable communities in the Global South, who are experiencing the brunt of climate change’s impacts and are the least responsible for it. The video is co-produced by ACT Alliance – Canada Forum, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, KAIROS Canada, Presbyterian World Service and Development, The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, the United Church of Canada and World Renew. For more information about KAIROS’s calls around climate finance, click HERE.
The video is accompanied by a new/mode campaign with a letter to the Prime Minister and key cabinet members calling for Canada to scale up financing for loss and damage as part of its next climate finance pledge. To sign the letter and share it with your networks, please click HERE.
See, Act, Learn for Climate Justice Online Screening/November 18, 11:00 am EST
KAIROS Canada, ACT Alliance – Canada Forum, Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB), and For the Love of Creation are hosting an online screening of the video and discussion next Monday, November 18 at 11:00 a.m. EST (60 minutes). We will screen Coming Together for Climate Justice on Loss and Damage and hear updates on the climate finance negotiations at COP29 from ACT Alliance, CFGB, and partners from Ethiopia, the Philippines, and Kenya (TBC). English/French interpretation will be available. To register, please click HERE.
SCAN!’S COP29 Postcard Campaign
SCAN! Campaign – No Canadian Badges for Fossil Fuels at COP29
Canada gives credentials (badges) to executives of fossil fuel companies allowing them full access to the COP negotiations. This has to stop.
Inspired by Alienor Rougeot of Environmental Defence, who spoke at our May 30 webinar on COP29, some Ottawa SCAN! members took the initiative of designing a postcard campaign focused on pressuring the Canadian Government to deny fossil fuel industry executives accreditation as representatives of Canada at COP29 (Conference of the Parties). See the backgrounder below.
The presence of fossil fuel interests at COPs has been undermining the integrity of the global negotiation process for effective solutions to climate change and their numbers have increased dramatically.
We have one month to pressure the Canadian government to deny Canadian Credentials to fossil fuel company executives. The government allocates credentials in August. The cards have to be in by the end of July.
So we have to move fast.
SCAN! is printing 2000 postcards addressed to Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault that call for him to stop allocating national delegate badges to fossil fuel interests. No stamp is required.
Please distribute the cards far and wide. Get them to friends and family. All they have to do is sign the card and drop it in the mail. Again, no postage is required.
Distribute them at tabling events, farmers markets, parks, and other venues where there are large numbers of people. If you get signatures, you can drop the cards in the post yourself.
Click HERE to become a SCAN! member so you can attend our second webinar on COP29 on July 9 at 7:00 pm EDT.
If your organization would like to distribute the SCAN! postcard, please click HERE to email us.