RAC France: Letter to President Emmanuel Macron on the Finance in Common Summit 2020
As the world is faced with the consequences of the health crisis, public finance institutions have a critical responsibility to support a just and green recovery. The 450 institutions gathered at the summit are the world’s biggest countercyclical lenders. As such, they must play their part in the collective effort to build back better.
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CAN Europe: Civil society-led energy scenario sets path to climate neutral Europe by 2040
European civil society organisations map out the first-ever NGO-led energy scenario based on 100% renewable energy and looking at reducing carbon emissions by at least 65% by 2030. The analysis corroborates existing evidence, showing that Europe can achieve climate neutrality by 2040 - a decade before the 2050 target - and lead the rest of the world in the energy transition.
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CAN Japan: Massive global shareholder backing for Mizuho climate shareholder proposal
A first-ever Japanese climate shareholder proposal received massive international investor backing at Mizuho Financial Group’s (Mizuho) shareholder meeting today, with 35% of shareholders, worth well over US$500bn, voting for the proposal. Notably, the two largest international proxy advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, both recommended in its favour.
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Pacific Islands CAN: #PacificDemands for the Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific CSOs demand ambitious action to address the climate crisis through justice and equity for current and future generations on: #JustRecovery, climate finance, International Court of Justice advisory opinion, mitigation, loss and damage, gender and human rights, Pacific Youth Declaration on Climate Change, and food security
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350.org: Demand the G20: Our money, for a Just Recovery
Finance Ministers of the world’s biggest G20 economies meet in July to discuss how to spend trillions of public dollars on economic recovery and stimulus. We demand justice and a dignified, liveable future for all.
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CAN Southeast Asia: Building power: A just and sustainable recovery in Asia
Improvements in environmental indicators due to COVID-19 present an unprecedented opportunity for an economic transformation which is ecologically sustainable and socially just. Building power through movements can ensure that this happens.
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Big Shift Global: The MDBs and a Just, Paris-aligned Recovery
The Big Shift webinar discussed finance supporting the just recovery whilst meeting that Paris goals, and members of the Big Shift Coalition will be continuing this conversation and continuing to advocate for Paris-alignment by the MDBs and their financing of a just sustainable recovery
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Voices from the Frontlines
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Messages from Indigenous people, Russian youth movement, and CAN EECCA members on the unprecedented Siberia heatwave and wildfires resulting in record 38°C temperature in the Arctic, 52 megatons of carbon dioxide & smoke clouds and haze across North America. And yet Russia continues to burn & export fossil fuels causing the Norilsk oil spill disaster. We call on Russia to act on the #ClimateEmergency & #SaveSiberia now! Share the video on Twitter or Instagram.
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Now is the time to climate-and-pandemic-proof our food systems
By Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International
As farmers in Bangladesh and India assess the damage to their villages and crops from Cyclone Amphan, it is clear that climate disasters have not stopped for Covid-19. Continue reading
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Lakes and Rivers in Uganda have gone crazy; reclaim what belongs to them
By John Mary Odoy, CAN-Uganda
Over 100,000 people have become homeless, roads and buildings are damaged as the Nile overflows, along with Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga in Eastern Uganda - here’s what we’ve learned and what we need to do. Continue reading
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Stop the Ravaging of Cabo Delgado: A letter to Carbon Majors on Mozambique’s Independence Day
CAN co-signed a letter to Total, ExxonMobil, Shell and other carbon majors, as well as to the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Government of Mozambique to end the devastation in this northernmost province of Mozambique, with communities starving and landless, even before any gas has been extracted. Continue reading
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Here's you monthly brief of opinion pieces and news from across the CAN network:
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Ensure sustainability is the key factor in policies and decisions
By Nithi Nesadurai, CANSEA Coordinator
Covid-19 demonstrates how fragile human societies are to the forces of nature and environment, and not necessarily only by the less developed. This relationship should not be underestimated; humanity’s ability to weather future storms may very well depend on a supporting natural ecosystem that is well protected and preserved. Continue reading
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US climate activists confront the movement's whiteness problem
By Chloé Farand, Climate Home News
Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and a Chevron slip-up highlight how environmentalism has failed black communities - and new models of activism are needed. Continue reading
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Lawsuit First to Sue Koch Industries for Climate Deception
Union of Concerned Scientists
Minnesota fraud lawsuit against fossil fuel industry follows state legacy of holding opioid, tobacco and other industries accountable for misleading consumers. Continue reading
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Call for Newsletter Submissions
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This newsletter is your platform as part of the CAN family so use it as an opportunity to share content about the amazing work you’re doing - these could be articles, blogs, events, campaigns, publications, projects, etc. We would love to get more stories from you!
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Well-being and Mindfulness
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Feeling alone in times of Corona? How we are all connected
In these times of the corona crisis, many of us are working from home, not seeing our colleagues, minding the need for physical distance. Also, the usual global conferences, where we would normally get together and catch up and sit together to create and plan and share how life has been treating us - are postponed.
Some days it bothers me to be so physically distant from my colleagues and I feel a bit lost and of course also physically alone. This wouldn't be so scary if I knew when it would end. But I don't know that. I might still be physically alone in 1 year's time, without the opportunity for a CAN party, which re-energises me to continue the climate fight.
In moments like that, I find comfort in the interconnectedness of all life, the connection we all hold with each other and with the natural world. We are all made of the matter of the earth, the air we breathe has been gifted to us by plants and trees. We are all somehow each other's cousins. This is ancient wisdom as well as it is modern science explained by quantum physics.
The below resources offer some thoughts on our connectedness with each other and with all things on this planet. This is for you to dive into on days where you want to shake the feeling of isolation.
The Buddhist belief in the interdependence and interpenetration of all phenomena is widely described as Indra's net. This net is enormous and a brilliant jewel is attached to each knot of the net. Each jewel contains and reflects the image of all other jewels in the net, sparkling the maginificence of its totality. Read more about Buddhist cosmology here.
Or as Chief Seattle (Seathl, Chief of the Suwamisu Tribe) wrote in his letter in 1854 to President of the United States, Franklin Pierce: "…Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people. […] We are part of the earth and it is part of us. Read the full letter and some historical background here.
Similarly, Camille Seaman has reflected on how we are all connected no matter boundaries, languages, or continents. Her ponderings over our connection with nature have led her to chase storms and photograph them in the hope of sparking a relationship with the viewer and the planet. She explains this further in a TED talk here: Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser
Finally, for the more science-oriented colleagues an explanation for how we are all connected, how there is no real "space" between us, quantum physics also offers a theory on this as explained by Nissam Haramein in the Ted Talk on the Connected Universe.
In any case, the essence is: you are not alone and we are all connected though distant in the matter, we are all in this together. See you at the next CAN gathering!
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What are #TransformativeNDCs? Briefing Paper on NDC Enhancement
Watch the video, read the report and use the presentation where we talk about the elements of transformative NDCs, the sectors that need to raise mitigation ambition, actions on adaptation and loss & damage, support mechanishms as well as accountability methodologies.
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REN21 Renewables 2020 Global Status Report
A comprehensive annual review of the state of renewable energy around the world. The past 5y years have seen impressive growth in renewable power. However, major barriers have existed in heating, cooling & transport for the last decade. Governments must have policies that create the right market conditions in these sectors.
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WWF’s #NDCsWeWant Checklist
#NDCsWeWant is a checklist to benchmark these revised NDCs as they are published. We propose 20 mostly qualitative factors, grouped into five sections: ambition, fostering systemic change, Inclusiveness and participation, contribution to sustainable development, and tracking progress.
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Power&Action 4.20 Playlist by DJ Goldilocks (Cat Abreu)
Listen on Spotify
A collaborative playlist that that continues to evolve as it allows you and others to add your songs of #PowerandAction
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Check out this video (also posted on Instagram and Twitter) on our fight to end the fossil fuel industry and push for a clean energy future with solidarity featuring messages from CAN Japan, Oil Change International, CAN Latin America, Greenpeace Africa, Christian Aid, Oxfam in the Pacific, and Amnesty International.
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