00:00From the COP29 Presidency Quarters, progress is being had.
00:05We have seen encouraging signs that the parties are starting to engage with each other on
00:09different elements of the goal, particularly those considered low-hanging fruit.
00:15However, we must be honest.
00:17We believe that the pace of their work is currently too slow.
00:21We cannot afford to leave too much ground to be covered later in the summit at the political
00:26level.
00:27We are urging everyone to intensify their engagements and remain focused on the imperative
00:32to make quick progress.
00:34But for climate justice activists like the Climate Action Network, these efforts are
00:39woefully insufficient.
00:42We hear silence when for 30 COPs we fly from all around the world to demand justice and
00:47we only get empty promises, greenwash and useless words with no action.
00:54We hear silence when we watch oil and gas executives sign the dotted line on more than
01:00US$250 billion in oil and gas expenditure since COP28 last year, according to new research
01:08by Oil Change International.
01:11We hear silence while we watch Global North governments spend trillions on war machines
01:17that fuel violence around the world and come here to hear that there are zero dollars to
01:22pay their climate debt.
01:24The global campaign to kick big polluters out says there are more than 1,770 fossil
01:32fuel lobbyists at COP29.
01:35It also shows that we do urgently need a conflict of interest policy in this space.
01:42We can no longer pretend that these numbers will not make these negotiations fail in reaching
01:48the 1.5 degree target.
01:51Another lobbyist group, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, says the election
01:56of Donald Trump will definitely stall their efforts.
01:59His team's proposed Project 2025 would not only pull out of the Paris Agreement but possibly
02:06the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the core of their economic policy being
02:14what they call drill baby drill, thinking that the tariffs and other punitive measures
02:20that the US could impose on other countries could be offset by lower energy costs.
02:26The limitations of the Trump administration are evident.
02:30The Trump administration is projected to cause an addition of four billion tons of carbon
02:33to the atmosphere as our future president has sold the keys of our future to his cronies
02:37in the oil and gas industry.
02:40The Biden administration, like every democratic administration before it, has regrettably
02:43refused to substantively begin the phase out of oil and gas while they had the power to
02:48do so.
02:49It took a woman with Caribbean roots to point out that in any spectrum, Afro-descendants
02:54are those to suffer most.
02:57The data shows from the People's Permanent Forum that wherever we are located in the
03:01Americas, Europe or Asia, we are at the margin of society.
03:06We are the ones who are suffering from land loss, living in...
03:10I'm just closing.
03:14Suffering from land loss and suffering from living in areas that are near polluted sites
03:21and toxic sites, or suffering from respiratory disease, heart disease and a whole bunch of
03:27other elements that are affecting Afro-descendants wherever you look.
03:31From the Caribbean, from North America, Canada, Birmingham, Berlin, wherever we are, we are
03:39suffering incredibly from climate change.
03:43We are suffering from climate change.
03:45We are suffering from climate change.
03:47We are suffering from climate change.
03:49We are suffering from climate change.
03:51We are suffering from climate change.
03:53We are suffering from climate change.
03:55We are suffering from climate change.
03:57We are suffering from climate change.
03:59We are suffering from climate change.
04:01We are suffering from climate change.
04:03We are suffering from climate change.
04:05We are suffering from climate change.
04:07We are suffering from climate change.
04:09We are suffering from climate change.
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