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This Valentine’s Day, give the gift of fragrance – without the danger of toxic chemicals
“Clean” beauty in 2023 is one of the fastest growing categories in the personal care space, so you may want to give – or hope to get – clean fragrance this Valentine’s Day.
The problem: The term “clean” isn’t regulated. Brands can and do make up their own definitions – and there’s nothing to prevent a fragrance brand from slapping the word on its label. So it’s wise to view products’ claims of clean, green or “free from” with skepticism: Far from being “safer,” they might still be concocted from a secret mix of toxic chemicals.
There’s a better approach to fragrance this Valentine’s Day.
The problems with most fragranceThe origins of fragrance hark back to the ancient Egyptians, who made them with chemicals derived from plants and animals. But today that’s too costly. So the beautiful bottles of fragrance on the department store counter that claim to contain jasmine, rose, bergamot or orange zest most likely aren’t made with those ingredients. Instead, they probably contain a cocktail of potentially thousands of hidden chemicals.
And we don’t know which of roughly 3,000 synthetic chemicals may lurk in a particular fragrance – they don’t have to be disclosed, since they’re considered a “trade secret.” But many of the chemicals are concerning, and no federal regulations prevent their use in fragrance.
They might contain substances like cancer-causing formaldehyde or phthalates, which are used to make fragrance last longer but are associated with harm to the male reproductive system and other health concerns. Artificial musk, which accumulates in the body, has been linked to cancer. And many of these chemicals are highly allergenic, so they can trigger asthma attacks, skin irritation, respiratory distress and other allergic reactions.
EWG’s Skin Deep® cosmetics database contains hundreds of fragrance products made with ingredients we consider to be highly hazardous, such as the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, artificial coloring, preservatives and lilial.
Your best sourceYou have better options if you want to give (or drop a hint about) a safer type of fragrance. A handful of brands make fragrance that bears the EWG VERIFIED® mark, meaning they are free from chemicals of concern and manufactured according to our strictest standards.
Transparency is required for products bearing the EWG VERIFIED mark – and it’s something that’s as much of the moment as the moniker “clean.” Brands carrying the mark must disclose all their ingredients, which include substances with recognizable names like rosemary oil, vanilla, jasmine and rose extract.
Any EWG VERIFIED fragrance would make a fine gift on Valentine’s Day, or consider a sampler set instead. The brands include:
Regulating fragranceThe Food and Drug Administration regulates fine fragrance, but manufacturers aren’t required to submit their products for review before introducing them into the market.
Until the federal government steps up to protect us from toxic chemicals in fragrance products, your best bet is to compare products on Skin Deep and look for those bearing the EWG VERIFIED mark.
Areas of Focus Personal Care Products Cosmetics Toxic Chemicals Disqus Comments Authors Ketura Persellin February 1, 2023Press Release: The Green Deal Industrial Plan: A welcome initiative but missing critical climate conditions
On 1 February, the European Commission announced a Green Deal Industrial Plan to enhance the competitiveness of Europe’s net-zero industry and support the fast transition to climate neutrality. The plan, aimed at scaling up of the EU’s manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies and products, consists of four pillars: a simpler regulatory framework, faster access to funding, enhancing skills and open trade. The Commission also aims to propose a Net-Zero Industry Act to identify goals for net-zero industrial capacity and provide a regulatory framework suited for its quick deployment.
While the intentions behind this Communication are welcome, the announced measures mostly summarise existing support mechanisms. But more importantly, the Communication doesn’t underline the critical condition for receiving any additional support – significant emission reductions. The suggested measures announce more simplification and flexibility for accessing funds. However, flexibility should not come at the expense of a beneficial climate impact; if taxpayers are footing the bill, the investments for industry need to deliver significant emissions reductions.
Hydrogen: supported as an individual technology, but without needed safeguards
The Communication includes a wide variety of measures to simplify and accelerate the deployment of hydrogen, spanning from accelerated permitting to easier access to finance and direct subsidies. Hydrogen will be an essential element of industrial deep decarbonisation, so creating the appropriate regulatory and financing framework will enable this decarbonisation.
However, to ensure the efforts laid down in this communication deliver the climate effects that we need, Europe must ensure that hydrogen is produced with additional resources, and that it is reserved to those sectors that have no other decarbonisation pathways. Otherwise, hydrogen risks becoming a further threat to the climate, instead of a crucial climate solution.
We thus urge the Commission as part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan to adopt the delegated act on RFNBOs to provide the industry with regulatory certainty and the climate with adequate protection, and to include a very clear prioritisation strategy for industrial sectors with no other decarbonisation pathways into the auction scheme of the Hydrogen Bank. Similarly, we urge the institutions to ensure that a definition encompassing the whole lifecycle analysis of GHG emissions of low-carbon hydrogen is included in the Gas Market Package, together with a strict minimising of blending. Only with these safeguards in place hydrogen can contribute to building a European green industry.
CO2 infrastructure: general support present, but specific needs missing from the picture
The development of CO2 infrastructure is needed in industries where other options, such as direct electrification, have a limited deployment potential. The Communication touches upon several regulatory and financial aspects that would benefit the uptake of an EU wide CCS value chain.
The pillars of simple regulatory environment, faster permitting promoting strategic cross-border projects (transportation and CO2 infrastructure) are welcome and helpful to overcome bottlenecks standing in the way of deployment. Such a simplified regulatory framework would need to be harmonised across industries to incentivise a confident EU-wide CCS value chain development. The Communication also allows greater Member State flexibility when it comes to dispersing State Aid towards decarbonisation technologies such as CCS, potentially opening up much needed financing.
However, the lack of specific support mechanisms for CCS is a cause for concern since the technology will play a key part in the decarbonisation of industries such as the cement sector. In comparison, other technologies such as hydrogen are mentioned numerous times as a focus area. Although hydrogen is sure to play a role in EU decarbonisation, the specific focus on it creates a risk of syphoning funds away from CCS, direct electrification measures, and other necessary technologies jeopardises the realisation of an effective industrial climate action plan. For example, the Hydrogen Bank uses funds from the Innovation Fund, making fewer funds available for capital expenditure-heavy activities like CCS.
New renewable energy generation and grid infrastructure development: resting on REPowerEU plans
Accelerating the pace at which renewables are deployed and delivered to large consumers, such as industrial players, is crucial for the decarbonisation of European industry. In that context, the Communication’s plans on simplifying regulations, minimising bureaucratic burdens and establishing a large-scale skills partnership for onshore renewable energy will contribute to the acceleration of RES deployment in the EU.
However, while the extension and strengthening of smart electricity grids to accommodate large quantities of renewables is mentioned, it’s not supported with any additional measures outside of the existing REPowerEU plan. When it comes to State Aid, extending the provisions to all renewable technologies (in REDII) is necessary, but should still be accompanied by robust assessments that will prevent any potential negative environmental impacts.
The Communication also announces that the Commission intends to extend the new competitive bidding mechanism for scaling up manufacturing of components for solar and wind energy. This would be a welcome change from the current emphasis on hydrogen and sorely needed to deploy the additional RES generation necessary to power the direct electrification and hydrogen production targets.
Embodied Carbon: the recognition of full climate impact of materials is key
A predictable regulatory environment, such as the Commission proposal aims to establish, is crucial to effectively decarbonise the building sector. The proposal does indeed refer to the construction and manufacturing sectors as “key to the green transition”, but it fails to address building materials altogether, which are traditionally manufactured via CO2-intensive processes. Thus, we urge the Commission to explicitly include crucial materials such as cement in the scope of “products that are key to meet our climate neutrality goals” .
We welcome the Commission’s acknowledgement of the role that European standards have in rolling out new industrial value chains. Establishing clear standards that set thresholds for embodied carbon content in construction materials, together with mandatory green public procurement criteria, will send a clear signal for the creation of lead markets for low-carbon materials, whose uptake will help accelerate the decarbonisation of the building stock. Specific support mechanisms such as carbon contracts for difference are also needed for various low-carbon products, such as cement and steel.
In addition, a harmonised approach at EU level for embodied carbon requirements will ease the burden on industry players that are having to deal with different legislation to that end, as some Member States already include embodied carbon provisions in national legislation (e.g., Denmark). The Net-Zero Industry Act must not only ensure the highest level of harmonisation across Member States, but also that the rapid deployment of clean technologies promotes standardised LCA data collection in buildings.
Conclusions: What’s missing?
Overall, the Communication identifies the correct challenges for industrial decarbonisation, but falls short on a few key elements. Going forward, the Net-Zero Industry Act must demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting projects which deliver real emissions reductions. All additional support, financial or regulatory, should only be provided under the condition that the receiving projects and products are climate compatible.
In addition to the needed conditionality, the support aimed at clean technologies should have a stronger focus on the specific infrastructure needed to decarbonise industry. Renewable energy generation and targeted use, the development of grids and CO2 infrastructure are all important elements that will need to be supported in order to create a thriving carbon neutral industry in the EU.
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What is a Regenerative Economy?
In a regenerative economy, we operate in harmony with nature. Businesses create conditions that regenerate and heal the planet. This concept builds on ecological design, which tries to restore balance in nature. We need to create a sustainable economy, one that: supports human life and well-being reduces fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions prioritizes climate […]
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In a recent letter co-signed by several NGOs, we urged members of the European Parliament to adopt the alternative compromise amendment in the Gas and hydrogen markets Regulation that enables the creation of an independent hydrogen network development entity (European Network of Network Operators for Hydrogen – ENNOH). This entity must be run by hydrogen network operators whose mission and interest are solely in planning a cost-efficient and proportionate hydrogen infrastructure development, with no conflict of interest.
Read here: Joint letter to EP – ENNOH
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EWG statement on proposed creation of a FDA deputy commissioner for human foods
WASHINGTON – Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf today proposed the creation of a deputy commissioner for human foods.
The following is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG senior vice president for government affairs, about the proposal:
Today’s proposed reorganization by Dr. Califf is an important first step toward addressing the structural and cultural challenges that contributed to several tragic food safety failures.
Food companies are responsible for the food they sell, but creating a deputy commissioner for human foods to oversee and coordinate FDA’s food safety and nutrition functions will help address the silos and miscommunication documented by the Reagan-Udall Foundation.
The deputy commissioner will have decision-making power over a new human foods program, but it’s unclear whether this new leader will have the power to ensure that food safety inspectors are trained and deployed to keep us safe.
It also remains to be seen whether FDA regulation of toxic chemicals in everyday products – a top priority for consumers – will finally be treated with the same sense of urgency as the pathogens in our food.
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Areas of Focus Food & Water Food Family Health Children’s Health Toxic Chemicals Food Chemicals Disqus Comments Press Contact Iris Myers iris@ewg.org (202) 939-9126 January 31, 2023EWG's Student Leader program
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Students are called the leaders of tomorrow, but EWG knows students today aren’t willing to wait for tomorrow when it comes to protecting their health and saving the planet. EWG is proud to support the next generation of environmental champions and advocates with science-backed tools and resources to help them create change on the pressing issues that affect our planet. As an EWG Student Leader, you’ll get our support as you make safe choices and we’ll help you make safe choices and enact change.
Have an idea of how to get involved or questions about the program? We’d love to hear from you! Email us at students@ewg.org
Consumer Guides EWG resources for students Tap Water DatabaseIf you've ever wondered what's actually in your tap water, we have answers. Our Tap Water Database provides insight into pollutants in local water resources.
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Click here Skin Deep®Since 2004, EWG's Skin Deep® cosmetic database has helped people protect themselves from potentially toxic chemicals in personal care and beauty products.
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Click here EWG’s Water Filter Guide Filtering your drinking water is a good step to take to protect children’s health from pollutants in tap water. But understanding the pros and cons of different types of filters can be tricky. Click here PFAS ChemicalsIn 1946, DuPont introduced Teflon to the world, changing millions of people’s lives – and polluting their bodies. Today, the family of compounds including Teflon, commonly called PFAS, is found not only in pots and pans but also in the blood of people around the world, including 99 percent of Americans.
Click hereMore rampant gas price gouging: Exxon reaps obscene $56 billion profit for 2022 on backs of hard-working Americans
SAN FRANCISCO – ExxonMobil posted record windfall profits in 2022 of $56 billion, according to the oil giant’s fourth-quarter earnings report, released Tuesday. Hard-working Americans getting fleeced at the gas pump are to thank for the company’s obscene earnings.
The financial report by Exxon, the largest U.S. oil company by market cap, comes days after Chevron posted its fourth-quarter earnings of roughly $36 billion in 2022.
A portion of the enormous gains can be attributed to the global energy market disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pandemic-induced inflation. But the sky-high gas prices Exxon and other big oil firms forced upon consumers, most notably in California, have undoubtedly contributed to the company’s eye-popping earnings last year.
“Exxon is reaping record profits for investors and company executives, much of it coming right from the pockets of hard-working families forced to pay outrageously high gas prices during much of last year,” said EWG President and California resident Ken Cook. “These obscene earnings made on the backs of everyday consumers should spur action by lawmakers in Sacramento to quickly adopt legislation to penalize future gas gouging by greedy oil companies in the state.”
Late last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom urged members of the legislature to take up a measure he put forth to punish big oil companies that participate in future price gouging.
The proposal, embodied in legislation introduced in a special session in December by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), would empower the California Energy Commission to impose civil penalties on oil refiners that exceed the profit gap limit. Lawmakers could tap the resulting special fund created by these penalty fees to issue refunds to California families.
Some of Exxon’s profits are likely helping fund the oil industry’s deceptive campaign to repeal a new law in California to block the expansion of oil and gas drilling in vulnerable communities around the state whose residents are largely Black and Latino.
“Between rampant price gouging and deceitful efforts to overturn a California law to protect communities of color from more dangerous oil drilling, it’s clear Big Oil has far too much power over the people in the state,” said Cook.
The campaign would block the law that bans new drilling operations from within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and hospitals for at least two years. Led by the California Independent Petroleum Association, of which Exxon is a member, the campaign claims to have gathered enough signatures to place a referendum on the 2024 ballot.
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Areas of Focus Energy Federal & State Energy Policy Fossil & Nuclear Regional Issues California Disqus Comments Press Contact Alex Formuzis alex@ewg.org (202) 667-6982 January 31, 2023FossilFreeNews – Can you feel the New Year energy?
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Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Well since we’re still in January, I want to wish you a year filled with new adventures and great fortune.
I believe entering a new year has a touch of magic to it, bringing us the opportunity to refresh, regroup and renew our goals, skills, ideas and more. Especially for us in the climate movement as we focus on planning, campaigns, actions and other exciting stuff. This fulfilling movement always seems to be on the go, a few stops here and there to catch a breath. Though through and through, there is always momentum from corner to corner, giving us an extraordinary gift to unite; mobilise under a common umbrella of justice.
Thank you for being back to our newsletter and we’ll see you again next month.
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SIGN UP HEREIn Case You Missed It Oil CEO to lead COP28
Yes, you’re definitely reading it right!
The year for COP28 has heard some very controversial news when it was announced early this month that oil executive Sultan al-Jaber has been appointed as President of this year’s UN climate treaty negotiations at COP28 in Dubai.
Activists have raised their concerns with obvious reasons, this is a conflict of interest at the highest level. Some compare it to a “wolf watching over sheep”, or my favorite “inviting Marlboro (or any famous cigarette brand) to a Cancer Conference”.
Now back to COP28, the role of the President at the UN summit focuses on setting the tone and agenda. What we then ask, how can an oil company executive really integrate fossil fuel interests while maintaining the urgency of fighting climate change in these crucial days?
Stay tuned! We too, are curious to see how things will pan out. And even more motivated to ensure that the climate movement stays focused on bringing an end to the fossil fuel era.
An endangered village vs climate chaosThe German village Lützerath is on the verge of being swallowed by the Garzweiler coal mine expansion that is run by RWE, Germany’s largest power company.
The devastating news was making waves in the climate movement as the evacuation of the village brought on solidarity actions to prevent the destruction. Seeing the numbers not only in the village of Lützerath, but in other parts of Germany brings hope to the climate movement. When people step up, our voices are heard. Those voices are screaming for accountability and the need for climate and social justice for the village.
Photo credit:@unwisemonkeys
Atlanticazo goes back to the streets to defend the seaEarly this month, thousands of people took the streets of Buenos Aires again, to protest against offshore oil drilling under the banner of the Atlanticazo movement. The march marked the one year anniversary since the first mobilizations, in January 2022, and were motivated by the recent approval by the government for seismic exploration projects, with the intention of checking the feasibility of oil drilling in the sea by the coast close to Mar del Plata.
Naturally such upsetting news would bring mobilisations of communities and socio-environmental, who had won last year a precautionary measure against such kind of projects – that was now revoked. The call to halt such destructive projects is for social and climate justice. The threat is big, habitats will be destroyed, sources of work lost, and any oil spill will leave irreparable damage to the sea.
People will not back down, they will continue to come together in solidarity for the protection of the sea.
Building the pressure for Canada’s Just Transition ActAs Parliament opened their doors for the year, word on the street is that the Trudeau government has set to introduce long-promised Just Transition legislation in early 2023 and it’s in the media spotlight like never before. And while this is certainly good and big news, the climate movement in Canada is working hard to ensure that the legislation meets both the breath, ambition and urgency that is required to halt the climate crisis.
The Big Oil is not saving money on spreading misinformation, and some politicians have been signalling that the Just Transition Act might not be as bold as people hope for. Wasting no time, this was the perfect opportunity for us to respond with Letter-to-Editor actions, spreading the word through local newspapers to build pressure on Parliament, to fight the forces of climate denial and delay and share the vision that a Just Transition that is based on science, guarantees good and green jobs and puts people over profit is possible!
One to WatchThe year is 2023, a year where the climate movement continues to hold climate polluters accountable.
The future looks a lot like renewable energy, sustainable finance, rooted on justice. Using these principles, the vision is to come together not just to mobilise but share those skills and build resilience with climate justice at the heart of it all.
A just and equitable transition is possible. The future is in our hands, let’s invest in it.
Watch Here Watch Here USE YOUR POWERKick the fossil fuel industry out of politics!
Can you imagine what that world would look like? As we’re faced with the soaring energy prices, the fossil fuel lobby is spending millions to sabotage policies that would help us cope. Policies that would bring about a just transition and a sustainable future.
The industry is out to make profits, and their focus isn’t on us or the climate chaos caused by the industry. But no more!
Our team in Europe is calling for its leaders to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Help us kick them out!
Sign the Petition Sign the Petition SKILL UP YOUR ACTIVISMNew year, new skills right!
To kick off the year, the Social Movement Technologies have some cool amazing training and coaching sessions planned out for the first quarter of the year.
If you’re reading this and you’re a campaigner or an activist, please take the time to really look at the resources offered. I don’t think it’s too late in the month to have another new year resolution under your belt. If anything, send it to that friend of yours who has been wanting to learn more and do more. Let this be that sign.
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Quote of the month
“We would urge the UAE government to really listen to the cries of the people: women in the Congo forest; Indigenous people in Africa; smallholder farmers whose crops are withered away because there is no rainfall and the thousands of people in the Horn of Africa who are facing starvation as a result of the changing climate. We may not have the power of money, but the power of the people will prevail.”
– Mithika Mwenda,
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
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Pressure mounts to remove polluters, not just oil exec, from UN climate talks
Source: kickbigpollutersout.org
26 January, 2023–There has been widespread condemnation since news broke earlier this month that Sultan Al Jaber, an oil executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), would be overseeing this year’s UN climate talks happening in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this November. But today, four United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) constituencies and 425 organizations representing millions of people from across the globe are calling not only for a COP28 president that is free and independent of fossil fuel influence, but for an end to the undue influence that allowed his appointment in the first place.
In a letter to the parties of the UNFCCC, Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the body, and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres—who has not minced words about the fossil fuel industry’s deceit and its catastrophic expansion plans—the constituencies and groups detail ADNOC’s outsized role in fueling the climate crisis, as well as the negligence of world governments in allowing polluters to steer the agenda of global talks.
“Polluters have a role to play: stop polluting. They cannot be placed on a leadership pedestal and certainly not in a position to undermine and weaken policy. That is basically nonsense. The UNFCCC is not only reluctant to accept a straightforward conflict of interest policy, but it is undermining its already weak international trust year after year,” said Gadir Lavadenz of the global campaign to Demand Climate Justice, a member of the global Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) network behind today’s letter.
The 450+ organization network is calling for the UNFCCC to adopt an Accountability Framework that prevents the world’s largest polluters from steering global climate policymaking.
Absent controls on industry interference, legions of lobbyists converge on annual climate talks each year. They even attend as members of country delegations, such as was the case with the UAE’s 1000-person delegation, which featured more fossil fuel lobbyists than any other country delegation.
What’s more, corporations like the world’s largest plastics polluter, Coca-Cola, were allowed to literally sponsor last year’s climate talks. 18 out of 20 COP27 sponsors either directly partner with or are otherwise linked to the fossil fuel industry. And at COP27, a PR firm with long ties to the fossil fuel and other pariah industries was retained to manage communications.
“The list of political interference and cooptation of the UNFCCC goes on and on. They make a mockery of the space and the critical work it needs to accomplish. The appointment of an oil executive is the tipping point and must now be the impetus at long last to retrieve the UNFCCC from a long descent into Big Polluters pockets,” said Coraina de la Plaza of Global Forest Coalition, another KBPO member organization.
Making Al Jaber’s appointment particularly insidious is that he helms a corporation that is among the top 15 corporations most responsible for carbon emissions. ADNOC’s expansion plans are second only to Qatar Energy globally. And these plans, not surprisingly, are entirely incompatible with International Energy Agency scenarios, among others, to avert even more catastrophic harms from climate change. ADNOC is even pledging to produce more than 5 million barrels of oil a day.
Further affirming the KBPO network’s call for enduring safeguards against polluting interests, world leaders like the United States government’s special envoy John Kerry and the EU’s Frans Timmermans have actually lauded Al Jaber’s appointment, with Kerry coining it a “terrific choice.” Kerry has argued the fact that he has also done some business in renewables somehow makes him a “balanced” pick, not a puppet of polluters.
“Amid escalating climate chaos, the UNFCCC has been increasingly captured by corporate power—especially fossil fuel interests—while rolling back civil society access…The power balance at COP, a multilateral, democratic space, has gradually tilted away from rightsholder sovereignty to corporate dominated multi-stakeholder platforms. We will not cede this space to those whose interest is profit over people and planet. This is a climate crisis and we simply cannot afford to lose ground,” said Getrude Kenyangi, a Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) Facilitative Committee member.
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), had the foresight to address industry interference from the outset to strong effect. Other UN bodies such as the nascent pandemic and plastics treaty negotiating bodies are also facing similar calls to govern the engagement of vested commercial interests. And a binding treaty on business and human rights is nearing a decade of negotiation to deliver some modicum of accountability globally for corporations like those engaging most actively in the UNFCCC and other UN fora.
Signatories of the letter, as with peers in these aligned spaces, see corporate accountability mechanisms as fundamental to the success of the UNFCCC, not to mention climate action more broadly. As a starting point, organizations are demanding a COP28 president free of fossil fuel influence and for the interests of all COP28 participants to be proactively declared.
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Contact: media@corporateaccountability.org, reachout@kickbigpollutersout.org
Additional quotes from UNFCCC constituencies and KBBPO members:
“COP Presidencies must be free and independent of fossil fuel influence. It’s time for the UNFCCC to deliver the long overdue, equitable phaseout of fossil fuels and do it with a Just Transition focused on workers’ rights, social dialogue, and social protection. We must stop now all fossil fuel companies that weaken and undermine the global response to climate change.” Bert De Wel, ITUC policy advisor and TUNGO constituency focal point
“The appointment of a CEO of a fossil fuel company as the COP President, and the real conflict of interest this poses should not be downplayed. The UN climate body is in serious jeopardy of having its credibility undermined and its ability to deliver the real and ambitions actions required to address the climate emergency. For years, civil society groups have asked the UNFCCC to implement a conflict of interest policy and an accountability framework to stop big polluters and fossil fuel vested interests from hijacking the climate talks. It is no surprise that decisions to take actions against the main culprits of climate change was never on the agenda of the COP’s up until recently. And now we are at this outrageous point where the fossil fuel industry has one of its captains at the helm. There is no place for polluters at a UN climate conference, least of all in presiding over one. We have called on COP28 President Al Jaber to step down as CEO of ADNOC and also strongly call on the UNFCCC to put in place a robust conflict of interest policy now.” Tasneem Essop, Executive Director: CAN International
“The UNFCCC COP process is heavily-weighted by people who have zero experience of understanding the predatory aspects of climate change impacts to Indigenous Peoples. The process has always given more power and voice to the fossil fuel industry than impacted people and communities. COPs are already dominated by banks and polluters that have terrible track-records of ignoring the demands of and rights of Indigenous Peoples. The UNFCCC process has lost all credibility and placing an oil executive as the COP28 President proves it.” Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
“The fossil industry is desperate to carry on with business-as-usual despite the worsening climate crisis and their role in it. It’s the same industry pushing carbon markets and other false solutions instead of committing to real and deep emission cuts. And it’s that very same industry infiltrating and influencing the climate negotiations. For COP28 to have any chance of delivering on climate action, we cannot allow for this blatant conflict of interest.” Lise Masson, Friends of the Earth International
“While climate policy and climate agreements are complicated, what’s not is 86% of the pollution trapped in our atmosphere and smothering the earth, causing the dramatic increase in fires, floods and drought, comes from three things: oil, gas and coal. There is significant evidence that major fossil fuel companies have buried scientific evidence, funded denial and delayed climate action. These companies and their executives are not going to design their own demise. The rules to regulate them to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and fast track investment in solutions must be made without the fossil fuel industry at the table so that we act quickly and save as many lives as possible. This fiasco is also pointing out the importance of new bold ideas to ensure international collaboration to stop fossil fuel expansion like the Fossil Fuel Treaty.” Tzeporah Berman, International Program Director Stand.earth
“The appointment of an oil executive at the helm of COP28 is a huge setback and sets an ominous sign for the upcoming climate negotiations in Dubai. Sultan Al Jaber’s presidency swings the door open for big polluters to further influence the climate negotiations and foist the same polluting, business-as-usual approaches that harm lives, livelihoods, and communities. If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, COP28 should give a platform to frontline communities and their demands for climate justice, not the big polluters like Al Jaber and their false solutions.” Jax Bongon, Policy Officer, IBON International
“Letting petrostates host the UN climate talks is bad enough, but appointing a petrol company executive as President of COP28 is an effrontery several orders of magnitude beyond anything that happened before in the history of the UN climate process. Attempts to sugar coat this scandalous decision only serve to undermine the huge efforts of everyone working to limit global heating. This brazen attempt of the dying fossil fuel industry to predetermine the outcome of COP28 will not stand.” Cansın Leylim Ilgaz, Associate Director Global Campaigns, 350.org
‘This case shows again we collectively need to decide what is acceptable and what is not. And we urgently need a conflict of interest policy for the UNFCCC. Corruption and undue influence are eroding public confidence and preventing some key stakeholders to have their voices heard. The stakes of climate policy making are too high for being captured by some vested interests.’ Brice Böhmer, Climate & Environment Lead, Transparency International
“The appointment of Sultan Al Jaber as President-Designate is more than a conflict of interest — it reflects the UNFCCC’s complete abdication of responsibility to real and effective climate action. As the unprecedented number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP27 made clear, UN climate conferences are increasingly serving the interests of big corporations, particularly oil and gas companies. In doing so, they offer a platform for greenwashing initiatives and dangerous false solutions rather than advancing the phaseout of fossil fuels urgently required to avoid a catastrophic escalation of the climate crisis. This appointment is even more alarming as the UAE government aggressively curtails the rights and freedoms of civil society, preventing the expression of dissent. For the credibility and integrity of the climate negotiations, it’s imperative that Sultan Al Jaber resigns from his roles as CEO of ADNOC and Masdar or decline the COP presidency and that the UN adopt policies to prevent further conflicts of interests in relation to the climate negotiations.” Sébastien Duyck, Campaign Manager Human Rights & Climate Change, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
“The announcement of an oil executive as the president designate of COP28 reinforces the long standing conviction of the global climate justice community that the climate talks have been hijacked by the same fossil fuels industry that is responsible for the climate crisis and the suffering of frontline communities. The credibility of the UNFCCC processes to deliver on climate ambitions is mow further eroded. The negotiations in UAE may be between the fossil fuel industry and the fossil fuel industry. Frontline communities and other critical voices will be shut out.” Philip Jakpor, Director of Programmes at Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa
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Letter from ‘Kick Big Polluters Out’ on COP28 Presidency
To:
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Parties to the UNFCCC—
On January 11, news broke that Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), will be overseeing the upcoming round of global climate negotiations as president of COP28, hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The United States, the European Union, and even the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) all applauded the news.
But let us be clear–this is no cause for celebration. This decision threatens the legitimacy and efficacy of COP28. If we have any hope of addressing the climate crisis, every COP must be free from the polluting influence of the fossil fuel industry.
ADNOC is the world’s 12th largest oil producer. As a major emitter it ranks 14th in the list of corporations most responsible for carbon emissions. ADNOC also ranked 2nd highest in a global analysis of fossil fuel companies’ oil & gas expansion plans, making it one of the fastest growing fossil fuel companies based on its project and construction approval for new fields and wells. It recently ramped up its expansion plans by committing to produce 5 million barrels per day by 2027, and it partners closely with other major polluters to continue to lock in a fossil-fueled future. Its plans are incompatible with the International Energy Agency’s scenario, which makes it clear that there can be no new oil and gas development to be on track to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Even before the appointment of Al Jaber, the UAE’s track record demonstrates it is not serious about phasing out fossil fuel use and keeping global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Rather, its track record demonstrates it is central to causing the climate crisis, not solving it.
There is no honor in appointing a fossil fuel executive who profits immensely off of fueling the climate crisis to oversee the global response to climate change. That such a move could ever be seen to be legitimate amidst an intensifying climate crisis where millions of lives and ecosystems are on the line exemplifies just how insidious Big Polluters’ stranglehold over climate policy is. It also points to a deeper problem—fossil fuel interests overrun the UNFCCC and threaten its credibility. At COP27 last November, more than 630 fossil fuel lobbyists registered to attend the climate negotiations. The UAE, now hosting COP28, had more fossil fuel lobbyists on its delegation than any other country. The grim reality is that this appointment represents a tipping point in which the UNFCCC is rapidly losing any legitimacy and credibility.
More than 450 organizations have called on world governments to reset the system to ensure that it stops serving greed and profits and instead protects the people and communities who are paying for the world’s fossil fuel addiction with their lives and livelihoods. Multiple UNFCCC constituencies—representing youth, women and gender, trade unions, and the climate justice movement—have called on the UNFCCC to finally pass an Accountability Framework that ends the ability of Big Polluters to unduly influence and undermine the global response to climate change. Yet despite this united demand, and as the climate crisis is being experienced all around the world, world governments continue to treat the UNFCCC as an industry PR stunt and corporate trade show, despite the clear warnings delivered by the IPCC.
No COP overseen by a fossil fuel executive can be seen as legitimate. COP Presidencies must be free and independent of fossil fuel influence. It’s time for the UNFCCC to deliver the long overdue equitable phaseout of fossil fuels. Critically, addressing the real problem of polluting interests only begins here. In addition, we demand:
- Big Polluters cannot write the rules. Big Polluters must not be allowed to unduly influence climate policymaking. This allows them to continue weaken and undermine the global response to climate change, and it’s why we are on the brink of extinction. The UNFCCC must urgently establish an Accountability Framework, including a regime-wide conflict-of-interest policy, that systematically ends this corporate capture.
- No more Big Polluters’ bankrolling climate action. No Big Polluter partnership or sponsorships of climate talks or climate action. Not now. Not ever. Major polluters must not be allowed to greenwash themselves and literally buy their way out of culpability for a crisis they have caused. The UNFCCC will always fail to deliver so long as this is deemed acceptable.
- Polluters out and People in. While civil society has always participated in the COP process, governments have made it more difficult each time for non-governmental organizations and climate justice movements to have their voices heard. We need equitable, meaningful inclusion of civil society. Climate action must center the leadership and lived experience of the people, especially those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. With frontline communities in the lead, we must end the funding and validation of dangerous distractions and false solutions that promote Big Polluters’ profits, enable their abuses, and guarantee decades more of fossil fuel use.
- Reset the system to protect people and the planet, not Big Polluters. Big Polluters are destroying life as we know it. It’s time to build a new way of living and collaborating that works for people, not polluters, and that restores, rather than destroys, nature. We need real, just, accountable, gender responsive, community-led, nature-restoring, and proven and transformative solutions to be implemented rapidly and justly. We need a total and equitable transition off of fossil fuels. We need real solutions that center the rights of Indigenous peoples, local communities, women, workers, and the protection of those speaking up for justice. We need an end to the impunity of corporate abuses.
Year after year, the UNFCCC has failed to deliver the needed climate equity and action to end the era of fossil fuels, and to rapidly and justly transition to a new global system. 2023 needs to be a breakthrough year. Will the UNFCCC keep undermining its own credibility and continue to avoid addressing the core driver of the climate crisis—fossil fuels? Or will it continue to give its executives a seat at the head of the table?
Sincerely,
UNFCCC Constituencies:
Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice – DCJ
Climate Action Network – CAN
Women and Gender Constituency
Trade Union NGOs (TUNGO)
Organizational endorsements:
Launching organizations:
350.org
Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
Center for Biological Diversity
Climate Justice Programme
Corporate Accountability
Corporate Europe Observatory
Culture Unstained
Friends of the Earth International
Global Forest Coalition
Greenpeace
IBON International
Indigenous Environmental Network
Reclame Fossielvrij
Social Tippingpoint Coalition
Union of People Affected by Chevron-Texaco – UDAPT
International
ActionAid International
AEGEAN FOREST FOUNDATION
Africans Rising
Alliance for the future Generation
Alt in MH
Amazon Watch
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Center for International Environmental Law
Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
Christian Aid
CIDSE
Climate & Sustainability
Climate Clock
Cyrog Enterprise Ltd
Debt Justice UK
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Dorcas Aid International
EarthRights International
EcoEquity
EcoPravo-Kharkiv
Ecovista
Education International
EnGen Collaborative
FairClimateFund
FIMCAP Europe
Fòs Feminista
Fuerza Mundial Global
Fundación Quantum
GAIA – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alterntatives
Gallifrey Foundation
Gastivists
Global Forest Coalition
Global Inititive for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Global Network of Civil Society Organisation for Disaster Reduction
Greenpeace
Heinrich Boell Stiftung Washington, DC
ICO “Environment – People – Law” (EPL)
IICAT The International Institute of Climate Action & Theory
International Climate Justice Program, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
International helping for young
International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE)
International Trade Union Confederation
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
International Youth Task Force for Climate Change, Epidemics & Natural Disaster
IWRAW Asia Pacific
MADRE
Margaret Pyke Trust
medico international
MenEngage Global Alliance
MISEREOR
Oil Change International
Oxfam
Parents For Future Global
Peoples Rising for Climate Justice
Plastic Free Campus
Polar Educators International
Population Connection
Practical Action
Presente.org/Alianza Americas
Razom We Stand
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary NGO at the UN
SHE Changes Climate
Simavi
SMC – Faith in Development
Stand.earth
Stay Grounded Network
Tearfund
The Institute for Climate Policy Solutions (ICPS)
Their Voices for Climate
Third World Network
TONATIERRA
Transparency International
Tropenbos International
UNI Global UNION
War on Want
Water Justice and Gender
We Effect
WECF International
Women Deliver
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
World Animal Protection
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
YouthNet for Climate Justice
Africa
Aalem for Orphan and Vulnerable Children, Inc.
AbibiNsroma Foundation
Actions pour la Réinsertion Sociale de la Femme “ARSF”
Actions pour le Développement, l’Education et la Santé, ADESA RDC
AFPDE
Africa Farmers Media Centre
Africa Institute for Energy Governance
Africa Youth Coalition Against Hunger Sierra Leone
Akina Mama wa Afrika
Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU)
ANAD
Associacao comunitaria Emmanuel
Association de Sauvegarde de la Nature et de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable à Nefza (ASNEDDN)
Association pour le respect du droit des populations autochtones, du développement durable et du droit de l’homme (ARPA2DH)
Baray tagui
CADIRE CAMEROON ASSOCIATION
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch-CAMGEW
Candles Association for Equality / Morocco
Centre for 21st Century Issues
Centre for Citizens Conserving Environment & Management (CECIC)
Centre for community Against Human Trafficking (CIAHT)
Centre for Emergency and Development Support
Centre pour la Justice Environnementale – Togo
Citizens network for community development Zambia
Civil Society Action Coalition on Disaster Mitigation
Civil Society Organisation HINA Plateform
Cleannation Foundation
Climate Action Network Africa (CAN Africa)
CNTT
Collectif Sénégalais des Africaines pour la Promotion de l: Education Relative à l’Environnement (COSAPERE)
Community Agenda Support
Community Technology Development Trust
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa
Disaster Risk Management in Africa – DRM Africa
DUKINGIRE ISI YACU
Economic Empowerment and Human Rights Sierra Leone
Economic Justice Network Sierra Leone
Educating Girls and Young Women for Development-EGYD
Elizka Relief Foundation
Endorois Welfare Council (EWC)
Entreprise Forward and Fellow alumni of Women Deliver
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
FONAHD RDC
Fridays for Future Kajiado
Fridays For Future Kenya
Fridays for Future Uganda
GARDEN KID’S
GenderCC Southern Africa
Geo-Environmental Research Agency for Development (GERAD-LIBERIA) INC
Green Living Movement
HORN OF AFRICA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTION (HARDA)
Humanitaire pour un developpement social et societale “Sitroul-abde”
Innovative Hub for Inclusiveness, Empowerment and Social Development (SieDi-Hub)
International helping for young
Jigawa State Government
Joint Initiatives For Vulnerables Support
Karamoja Go Green
Kikandwa Environmental Association
KITUI PEACE NETWORK
LAMU WOMEN ALLIANCE
Lelewal Foundation
Les Ecocitoyens
Movement For Education And Advocacy Network Salone
MVIWAKI
Natural Justice
Natural Resource Women Platform
NCDG
Noble Delta Women for Peace and Development Intl.
ONG KAWTAL
Parents for Future Nigeria
Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development (PaWED) Cameroon
Powering Young Initiatives
RECODEF Sénégal AACJ
REFEDE MALI
Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation – RCIDC
Rise to Inspire Africa Initiative
SAF-TESO
SHE Changes Climate
Sierra Leone School Green Clubs (SLSGC)
Simma Africa Creative Arts Foundation
Somaliland Climate Action Initiative {SOCAI}
Spring of the arid and semi-arid lands (SASAL)
Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Sustainable Development Institute
SustyVibes
Union pour la Promotion/Protection, la Défense des Droits Humains et de l’Environnement-UPDDHE/GL
Vision for Alternative Development – VALD Ghana
Women for a Change
You-lean Chad
ZIMTA
Asia & Pacific
350.org Japan
ACTU
Active Citizens Pacific
AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
Alliance for Future Generations
Anne’s Christian Community Health School and Nursing Services
APWLD
ARSOW Nepal
Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
Australian Council of Trade Unions
Bangladesh Model Youth Parliament (Protiki Jubo Sangshad)
Barokupot Ganochetona Foundation -BGF
BIMBA (Kiribati)
Blue Dlian
Bougainville Women’s Federation
CADME (Coastal Area Disaster Mitigation Efforts)
Centre for Social Policy Development
Climate Action Network Japan
Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality
DIVERSE VOICES AND ACTIONS FOR EQUALITY FIJI
Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM)
FoE Japan
Friends of the Earth Australia
Friends of the Siberian Forests
Ganochetona Bangladesh
Good Food Community
Grameena Vikas Samithi-GVS.
Grata Fund
Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia
House of Colors
IDEAS For Nepal
Indian National Trade Union Congress-INTUC
Integrated Development Society Nepal
International Trade Union Confederation – Asia Pacific
International Women’s Development Agency
Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment
Kapul Champions Inc.
Kdadalak Sulimutuk Institute
Korea Federation for Environmental Movement
KRuHA
KSBSI
Living All Inclusive In Belau Organization
Lok Shakti Abhiyan
Motto to Empower Health, Education & Rights
Na i Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Taukei
National Campaign for Sustainable Development Nepal
National Fisheries Solidarity Movement
National Forum for Advocacy Nepal (NAFAN)
NDF Pakistan
Nepalese Space Research Association(NESRA))
NGO Forum on ADB
NTFP EP Philippines
NZEI Te Riu Roa
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee
Papua New Guinea Teachers Association
Rainbow Pride Foundation Fiji
Roots for Equity
Rural Area Development Programme (RADP)
Save & Plant Trees
SERUNI
Shifting the Power Coalition & Pacific Island Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice
Social Economic Development Society [SEDS]
SUKAAR WELFARE ORGANIZATION
Tebtebba Foundation
The Climate Reality Project Japan
TI-Korea
Tuvalu Climate Action Network
Vanuatu Human Rights Coalition
Vanuatu Young Women For Change
Vatu Mauri Consortium
Victorian Trades Hall Council
Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines
Youth Association for Development (YAD) Pakistan
Youth Strike 4 Climate Philippines
Europe
ACV-CSC METEA
Adéquations
Agora Association
Alliance Sud
Asociación Española de Educación Ambiental
Black Sea Women’s Club
Black2Nature
Campaign against Climate Change
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
CCFD – Terre Solidaire
Changemaker
Climate 2025
Climate Emergency UK
Climáximo
ČMOS PŠ
Co-ordination Office of the Austrian Bishop’s Conference for International Development and Mission (KOO)
CONFEDERACION INTERSINDICAL
Confederacion Sindical Comisiones Obreras España (CCOO)
Cordaid
Deutsche Umwelthilfe
Earth Minutes
Eco Action Families
Ecologistas en Acción
Element Four
Extinction Rebellion
FNV
Food and Water Action Europe
FridaysForFuture Thessaloniki
Friends of the Earth Cyprus
Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Germany/ BUND
Friends of the Earth Ireland
Friends of the Earth Malta
Friends of the Earth Norway (Naturvernforbundet)
Fundacja Gotowi.org
Global Justice Now
Global Witness
Grands-parents pour le cliamt/ Klima-Grosseltern Schweiz
Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE)
Green Thought Association
GREENPEACE
KFUK-KFUM Global
Klimadelegation e.V.
Kmelnytskyi energy cluster
Landelijk Netwerk Bossen- en Bomenbescherming.nl
Les Amis de la Terre France
Milieudefensie
Money Rebellion
Mosaïque Bretagne
NEU Climate Change Network
NGO Ekoltava
Observatori DESC
Parents for future
Parents for Future – West London
Parents For Future Austria
Parents for Future Italy
Parents for future Scotland
Parents for Future Sweden
Parents for Future Tortona
Parents for Future UK
Parents for future Waldviertel
Planète Amazone
Rapid Transition Alliance
ReCommon
Rodzice dla Klimatu – Parents For Future Poland
Scottish Sustainable Schools Network
SHE Changes Climate
Shine Coaching and Consultancy
Spire
Swedwatch
The Movements Trust
Transport&Environment
Trócaire
TROYA ÇEVRE DERNEĞİ
UK Schools Sustainability Network
UK Youth Climate Coalition
Unión General de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores (UGT)
University & College Union
Uplift
Urgewald
Vanguard SOS UK
WeSmellGas
ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
Zero Waste Society
Latin America & Caribbean
5 Elementos – Instituto de Educação para Sustentabilidade
Associação de Mulheres, agricultores, artesãos e amigos do Quilombo Santa Justina Santa Izabel – RJ do quil
Associação de Preservação do Meio Ambiente e da Vida – Apremavi
Casa del Protector Marcahuasi
Centro de Estudios Heñói
CESTA Friends of the Earth El Salvador
Coalición Ecuménica por el Cuidado de la Creación
Coalición Evangélica por la Justicia Climática
Coalición Nacional por la Tierra – Argentina
Colectiva Zurciendo el planeta
Colectivo CASA
Colectivo VientoSur
CPOOEM-Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México en Defensa de la Tierra, el Agua y su Cultura
Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
ECOMUNIDADES, Red Ecologista Autónoma de la Cuenca de México
ECORE
Entraide et Fraternité
Familias Pelo Clima
FirecircleTT To End ALL Abuse
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)
Fundacion Plurales
Iepé – Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indigena
Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos – Inesc
Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum
Instituto Ecologica
Instituto Internacional de Educacao do Brasil
IPÊ – Institute for Ecological Research
La Ruta del Clima
LATINDADD
Memoria Indígena
Movimiento Ciudadano frente al Cambio Climatico
Nós na Criação
Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela
Observatório do Clima (Climate Observatory)
Otros Cruces
Paz y Esperanza Ecuador
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ – PUCP
Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER)
RCA. Rede de Cooperação Amazônica
Reaccion Climatica
Red de Estudios y Empoderamiento Afrodescendiente RedAfros
Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social – LATINDADD
REDE GTA
Salvaginas Colectiva Ecofeminista
Sociedad civil Amigos del Viento meteorologia ambiente desarrollo
Taller Ecologista
The Breadfruit Collective
Voces de Tibet
Middle East
Arab Watch Coalition
Arab Youth Climate Movement-Lebanon
AYSDN
Dibeen For Environmental Development
EIPR
For bright yemen organization for development
Kazdagi Association for The Protection of Natural and Cultural Assets
Parents For Climate – Israel
RAWSA Alliance for African and Arab States
Youth For Climate Turkey
North America
Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action
198 methods
350 PDX
350 Triangle
350Brooklyn
Action Enivronnement Basses-Laurentides, Québec
Animals Are Sentient Beings Inc
Athens County’s Future Action Network
Beyond Extreme Energy
Biofuelwatch
Black Parents United Foundation
Businesses for a Livable Climate
Call to Action Colorado
Canton Residents for a Sustainable Equitable Future
CatholicNetwork US
Center for Constitutional Rights
Citizen’s Alliance for a Sustainable Englewood
Citizens Climate Lobby Lancaster
Clean Energy Action
Climate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL)
Climate Action Network – Réseau action climat Canada
Climate Families NYC
Climate Generation
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Justice Alliance
ClimateMama
Colorado Businesses for a Livable Climate
ColorBrightonGreen
Community for Sustainable Energy
Continental Network of Indígenous Women of the Americas, North Region
Defend Our Future
Empower Our Future
Environmental Defence Canada
Families for a Livable Climate
Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada (Office for Systemic Justice)
Friends of the Earth Canada
Friends of the Earth US
Front commun pour la transition énergétique
Grandmothers Advocacy Network
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance
Green 13
Green House Collaboration Center
Indivisible Ambassadors
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
Interstate 70 Citizens Advisory Group
Larimer Alliance for Health, Safety & Environment
Le Centre Oblat – A Voice for Justice
Littleton Business Alliance
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Mayfair Park Neighborhood Association Board
Mental Health & Inclusion Ministries
Montbello Neighborhood Improvement Association
Nature Québec
North Central Washington Climate Advocates
North Range Concerned Citizens
Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)
OC Sierra Club Climate Action Team
Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology
PACAN
RapidShift Network
Save the Environmental Protection Agency
Southwest Organization for Sustainability
Spirit of the Sun
System Change Not Climate Change
Talk Climate
Texas Campaign for the Environment
The Climate Reality Project Canada
The Parents’ Climate Community
Third Act Ohio
Unite North Metro Denver
Wall of Women
West Vallehy Neighborhoods Coalition
Western Slope Businesses for a Livable Climate
Womxn from the Mountain
Working for Racial Equity
Other
Online Knowledge Society
Research-Intellectual Club “Dialogue of Generations”
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ)
Women United Together Marshall Islands
Fiji Youth SRHR Alliance
DIVA Central Hub
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