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COP31 activists urge leaders to act on climate crisis

Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the talks, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg warned that the world is heading towards more genocides, ecocides and the loss of basic rights.

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00:00Activists at COP31 in Antalya, Saki, are calling for immediate action on the climate crisis.
00:07Speaking at a news conference on the silence of the talks, the activists warn that the world is heading towards
00:13more genocide,
00:14ecocides and the loss of basic rights. Activists also accuse the governments and corporations of complicity.
00:21The most important piece here is that every country can be complicit through the corporations that it hosts and holds,
00:28through the partnerships and normalization of ties with Israel that they hold.
00:33Complicity with genocide is not just material through oil, it's through, as I said, the media industrial complex,
00:39it's through the educational systems that continue to partner up with these countries that fuel genocide further.
00:45The leaders that are present, as Mohammed mentioned, whether they are not, does not absolve them of complicity
00:53in the harms that are happening in Nepal with our indigenous brothers and sisters in so-called Australia,
00:57in Palestine, in my homelands and my own territories on the continent.
01:01Whether they show up, showing up means nothing for us when families are under rubble,
01:07when you're having to physically bring your family members, your community, out from under flash flooding.
01:13Their showing up means absolutely nothing.
01:15In Canada right now, the government, the federal government, is currently expanding major projects
01:20under the guise of nation building.
01:29The warning comes after a report by the Climate Action Tracker that said global ethos have failed
01:36to significantly reduce emissions over the past five years.
01:40The report says the world is now heading towards an irreversible bridge
01:44of the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature limit set by the Paris Agreement.

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