Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2

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Heritage scientist. Director Rathgen Research Laboratory. 💚 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa,ON

Indigenous Peoples from the seven socio-cultural regions wish to condemn the unethical methods and even more unethical outcomes this COP has produced. There is nothing to celebrate here today. As Peoples, as Sovereign Nations, we join the several other Nations that have voiced their vehement objections to these unacceptable decisions that are continuing to destroy our planet. We support the CSOs who have chosen to use silence to refuse to give legitimacy to this sham of a process but we have an obligation to speak and hold our place as rights holders in this space and ensure our disappointment is put on record.
It is unacceptable that human rights and the rights of Indigenous Peoples were removed from NCQG, and instead prioritized carbon market financing, which profoundly harms Indigenous Peoples. While we urgently need direct and equitable access to climate finance for adaptation, mitigation and loss and damage across all seven socio-cultural regions we reiterate that we reject the financial colonization that comes from loans and any other financial mechanisms that perpetuate indebtedness of Nations who have contributed the least to climate change yet bear the brunt of its tragedies.
Our lands, waters, ice and territories are melting and burning. Our Peoples are suffering. We can no longer wait. Expecting us to be grateful for 300 billion by 2035 is expecting us to be grateful for you profiting off our preventable deaths.

Świdnickie Underpass , Wrocław, PL