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Please support us in driving urgent, just and equitable climate action
Climate Action Network (CAN) is the world’s largest network dedicated to climate advocacy, bringing together over 2,000 member organisations across more than 140 countries. At the heart of CAN’s work is the amplification of the voices and demands of communities worldwide – particularly those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – to shape policies that matter.
At the UN climate conference or COP that is held in November each year, governments from across the world come together to collectively decide on actions to address the climate crisis. This is the most critical conference that decides our future on this planet. Yet, the people for whom these policies are meant to benefit do not have a seat at the table. That is why, CAN makes sure that people who are most affected by climate change are able attend the COP and influence decision-makers who take decisions on behalf of all of us.
This is critical work. Sometimes, it means that our work with governments at the COP may lead to the formation of a fund that is available for countries and communities facing losses and damages from climate disasters, or governments acknowledging and agreeing to transition away from fossil fuels and into renewable energy. At other times, it could also mean that we are isolated in our demands as governments backslide on their promises in providing adequate finance necessary to get us out of the climate crisis.
Besides the UN annual climate conference, we also engage with World Bank, G20, G7, regional groupings like the EU and African Union etc. which also deal with the intersections of finance, human rights, trade, food systems etc, the many facets which affect and are affected by climate change.
Support from you for even a small amount such as Eur 3 or Eur 5 will go a long way in supporting the work we do at these spaces.
What leaders and bureaucrats discuss inside negotiation rooms needs to reflect the reality on the ground. Their discussions and decisions need to be relayed back to the public in real time. This is what our campaigns focus on. We support mobilisations from local to global levels to ensure that our policy work is grounded, while also placing what’s discussed in the policy spaces out in the public realm.
We are up against a system that favours the powerful and the rich who caused the climate crisis while the most vulnerable who haven’t even created the problem bear the worst brunt of the climate impacts. The fossil fuel industry that is responsible for 70% of global warming, the richest people in the world who use up the resources that should benefit everyone, financial systems that make vulnerable countries dependent on debt are just some of the systemic issues that are putting people’s lives at risk. As CAN, the fight for climate justice means fighting these unjust systems too.
Your support would mean fighting for an equitable world where each person can live with dignity.