Meena Raman, from Third World Network always delivers thought-provoking insights like here at #COP29. We can’t wait to hear more like these in person at the workshop, "From Baku to Belém: The Climate Finance Roadmap to COP 30”, organised by the University of Warwick, taking place tomorrow, March 4, 2025, at the #Shard in #London, where she will be speaking on “The Baku to Belem Roadmap: Challenges and Possibilities” alongside other equally insightful speakers. The event will critically review the outcomes of #COP29, assess the current state of climate finance negotiations and policy discussions leading into #COP30, and discuss just and equitable climate action. The first session programme will feature two talks in the morning: Unpacking #ClimateFinance in the Multilateral Climate Regime: Speakers: Vicente Paolo Yu, Senior Legal Advisor, Third World Network Katie Swan-Nelson, Economic Affairs Officer, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr. Jon Sward, Environment Project Manager, Bretton Woods Project Chair: Professor Celine Tan, University of Warwick The Baku to Belém Roadmap: Challenges and Possibilities: Speakers: H.E. Wael Aboulmagd, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt Dr. Diego Pacheco, Head of the Bolivian Delegation David Bailey, Head of Global Climate Finance, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Meena Raman, President, Friends of the Earth Malaysia Rebecca Thissen, Global Advocacy Lead, Climate Action Network International Chair: Dr. Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative ?? More info and full programme here: https://lnkd.in/eHtpYfF3 ?? Stay tuned for more on this event… In the meantime, read our thread on three key #LossAndDamage needs and priorities that must inform the development of the Roadmap here:? https://lnkd.in/e3dteaaJ + ??See our brief on why #LossAndDamage must be included in the #NCQG here: https://lnkd.in/e5BuJnsP #COP30 #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice #NCQG
??? Lesson 3?? On why developing countries need to step into their historical responsibility ? As you wait for plenary later on today, we thought we’d provide you with some educational material. ?? ??The teacher is in. ??In a press conference yesterday held by Demand Climate Justice, renowned climate justice activist, Meena Raman of Third World Network, gave a lesson on the unfairness of the #ParisAgreement and how it violates the right of developing countries to develop - all because developed countries have used up more than their fair share of the carbon budget and refuse to take the leadership needed on both #mitigation to keep 1.5 alive ??? and providing #ClimateFinance to enable #ClimateAction in developing countries. ?? ?? Developed countries have used up much of the carbon budget. As Meena shared in her last lesson, colonialism is the reason why developed countries became wealthy ????. They extracted resources ???? and used free labour from Africans kidnapped from their homes and sold into slavery ?? which fuelled economic growth ?? - all on the backs of developing countries. ?? Yet, even though the right to development is inscribed in the UNFCCC UN, developing countries are still expected to take #mitigation action at the same level of developed countries and achieve net-zero at the same time. ?? Some developing countries pushed for a fair shares approach in the #ParisAgreement but developed countries refused to consider this.?? They do not want to be told what to do and how and when to do it, yet they are continually dictating what developing countries should do and when and how - all without providing finance to implement what they are told to do even though the obligations to do so are inscribed in both the UNFCCC UN and its #ParisAgreement. ?? Developing countries have asked for burden sharing arrangements which would see #ClimateFinance tied to the proportion of historical emissions ?????? that developed countries are responsible for, which they have also refused to consider. ?? The takeaway: There is nothing fair about the way things are currently working and certainly not with the set of texts we received yesterday, particularly on the #NCQG.? ___ ? ?? Watch the replay of the press conference titled: The Great Escape 2: Baku Finance COP Edition here: https://lnkd.in/ewM2viAp ?? Find our letter to ministers and the COP29 Azerbaijan presidency outlining what the #NCQG needs to look like here:? https://lnkd.in/ev48E9-j
