Climate Vulnerable Forum Shines with Bold Call for 100% Renewable Energy

To be fossil worthy you must be cowardly, you must shake with a limp wrist SO we’re not giving out a fossil today, instead we’re giving a Ray of the Day and despite the name we do not give them out everyday.

The Ray is a rare thing it’s only given out when extra-ordinary things happen. Last night at 6pm, there was a high level meeting of 43 nations from the Climate Vulnerable Forum and where they made a bold, ambitious declaration to do something amazing. These countries that are the most vulnerable have decided to not play the victim, but instead show the kind of leadership that the rest of the world can learn from.

The Climate Vulnerable Forum have declared that they support a Paris agreement that aims to achieve full decarbonisation of our economies, so they can run their countries on 100% renewable energy, by mid century 2050! They are leading the way in setting course for a safer world, with only 1.5 degrees of global warming. As well as demanding proper support for communities hit hardest by climate impacts.

This declaration is so big, so bold, that it makes lots of the other countries…look like fossils.

Let’s hear it for the countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum!

About CAN: The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 950 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in more than 115 working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. www.climatenetwork.org 

About the fossils: The Fossil of the Day awards were first presented at the climate talks in 1999, in Bonn, initiated by the German NGO Forum. During United Nations climate change negotiations (www.unfccc.int), members of the Climate Action Network (CAN), vote for countries judged to have done their 'best' to block progress in the negotiations in the last days of talks.