COP26 – Ramp up ambition!

3 Nov 2020
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ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches participants at COP25 illustrate the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response, where most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into loss and damage, even though “that's where the people are.” They chanted: “What do we want? – Climate justice. When do we want it? – Now!

ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches participants at COP25 illustrate the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response, where most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into loss and damage, even though “that's where the people are.” They chanted: “What do we want? – Climate justice. When do we want it? – Now!

Time: 19:00 - 20:30 | GMT+01:00
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Visions for transformative climate action

The second of three online sessions brings together representatives from the scientific, policy and faith communities engaged in climate change. It is an interdisciplinary discussion on the agenda for COP26 and what this means for climate action now.

Panelists:

  • Sarmad Iqbal, Islamic Relief Worldwide (Pakistan)
  • Neil Thorns, Chair of the Climate Coalition and Advocacy Director at CAFOD (UK)
  • Prof Joyashree Roy, Bangabandhu Chair Professor, Asian Institute of Technology. IPCC Author (Thailand)
  • Moema de Miranda, Churches and Mining, Franciscans, Brazil
  • Ovais Sarmad, UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary (Bonn)

Moderator:

  • Lindsey Fielder Cook, Representative for Climate Change, Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva)

Zoom Host:

  • The Lutheran World Federation

 

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Event languages: English (interpretation into Spanish available)

 

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ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches participants at COP25 illustrate the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response, where most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into loss and damage, even though “that's where the people are.” They chanted: “What do we want? – Climate justice. When do we want it? – Now!

ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches participants at COP25 illustrate the lack of balance in finance of the global climate response, where most of the finance is put into mitigation, some into adaptation, but very little into loss and damage, even though “that's where the people are.” They chanted: “What do we want? – Climate justice. When do we want it? – Now!

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Lighting candles together. People of faith gather in a “Prayer for the Rainforest” as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, Spain, where faith-based organizations urged decision-makers to take action for climate justice. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
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