Gillian L. Cooper
@glcoops
Geographer•Mum•Caribbean woman in London•Pan-Africanist• Political Dir @fossiltreaty •Former @commonwealthorg @CANARICaribbean and @EAGAntigua 🇹🇹🇦🇬🇬🇧
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It was truly an honour and absolute privilege to moderate this event and to witness real climate leadership #FossilFuelTreaty @petrogustavo @RRegenvanu @gastonbrowne | EL PAÍS América elpais.com/america-futura…
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Colombia se une al llamado de no proliferación de combustibles fósiles durante la COP28
Se convierte en el décimo país y el primero en América Latina en sumarse a esta iniciativa. Buscan que se negocie un documento paralelo al Acuerdo de París para abandonar el carbón, el petróleo y el...
🧑⚖️On the final day of @IACourtHR #AdvisoryOpinion hearings, CIEL & partners are focused on States' duty to uphold the #RightToRemedy & phase out #FossilFuels. In this session, we are urging @CorteIDH to make history by naming the 🐘 in the room...⛽️ 📺youtube.com/watch?v=TWJWHS…
Let’s hear it for #Kingston and #Castries! 🏝️ The capitals of #Jamaica 🇯🇲 and #SaintLucia 🇱🇨 have just become the latest cities to lend their voices to the global movement for a #FossilFuelTreaty! More info in 🧵 & press release 👇 fossilfueltreaty.org/castries-kings…
Beautiful from Sean Jacobs @africasacountry ‘by…forcing the ICJ to act, South Africa is putting down a marker for global civil society…how groups that have faced oppression and violence can stand up confidently for one another on the world stage nytimes.com/2024/01/26/opi…
Bearing in mind the 1950s was the start of decolonization and continued post WW2 recovery … Imagine how different our world would be if we’d followed the science back in the 1950s. Reimagined relationships to people and planet … theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j…
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‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
Loving this #TruthBeTold campaign from @climaconscious podcast. Fantastic Caribbean voices for #climatejustice
As the #TruthBeTold Campaign continues, we revisit our objectives for this Caribbean call to action on Climate & Gender Justice ✊1. RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS ensuring everyone understands the urgency and importance of gender & climate-responsive solutions for a resilient Caribbean
Fadhel Kaboub, Senior Advisor @PowerShftAfrica, spoke to @BBCSounds about the #ItalyAfricaSummit. "The Mattei Plan is nothing more than a blatant colonial project. We must reject partnerships that worsen Africa’s structural problems." ~ @FadhelKaboub Listen In 🎧🎙️👇!
💥Today, the International Court of Justice declined Israel’s request to throw out South Africa’s genocide case, but ICJ's ruling still doesn't go far enough! Refusing to call for a ceasefire allows Israel to continue genocide! Read our full statement 👇🏾 m4bl.link/ICJstatement
On Western-centric climate discourse and how it invisablizes and devalues the lives of people in Africa. Well said @Nteranya_Ginga and authors africanarguments.org/2024/01/the-gr…
1/5 My new paper for @ROAPEjournal: 'Green #imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the #Congo' 🇨🇩 As with all ROAPE material from now on, it's open access & free to download for all 👇🏼 scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…
ICYMI, an excellent piece on the lack of equity and finer points - who benefits and who loses - in the COP28 outcome despite text on 'transitioning away from fossil fuels'. From @rishpardikar drilled.media/news/COP28-rec…
Informative breakdown of the implications and concerns not captured in the COP28 agreement from an African perspective. From @rishpardikar 'We are paying for our own adaptation.On top of this, we have to pay for the transition. It is really very unjust' africanarguments.org/2024/01/its-re…
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"It's really very unjust": Egypt's chief climate negotiator dissects COP28 | African Arguments
Mohamed Nasr, who formerly headed the COP27 presidency team, looks back at the outcomes from COP28 and what they mean for Africa.
“[The Amazon] is life. Oil is death. It’s as simple as that.” 🌳 President @petrogustavo of Colombia just reaffirmed his support for the #FossilFuelTreaty at the #WEF24 in #Davos! 🇨🇴 @wef
![fossiltreaty's tweet image. “[The Amazon] is life. Oil is death. It’s as simple as that.” 🌳
President @petrogustavo of Colombia just reaffirmed his support for the #FossilFuelTreaty at the #WEF24 in #Davos! 🇨🇴 @wef](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEMYjoVaIAAId0x.jpg)
Just the immense quiet violence of capitalism in bringing vegetables to your grocery store insideclimatenews.org/news/31122023/…
Interesting ... What Kenya’s proposed mission to Haiti says about Nairobi’s foreign policy atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africaso…
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What Kenya’s proposed mission to Haiti says about Nairobi’s foreign policy
Success in Ruto’s foreign policy approach depends, in part, on the success of this mission to Haiti—one that will be hard to come by.
Reverend @MuntherIsaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, delivered a powerful Christmas sermon on the war in Gaza and why the world must stand with Palestinians. "The hypocrisy and racism of the Western world is transparent and appalling," he said.
“Part of my own concern is not just what’s happening to the Palestinians but what the Israelis are doing to themselves. They are not aware that when you carry out dehumanising policies, whether you like it or not, those polices dehumanise you.” Rest in Power Desmond Tutu
Zambia's foreign debt tragedy – what needs to happen to resolve the crisis theconversation.com/zambias-foreig…
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Zambia’s foreign debt tragedy – what needs to happen to resolve the crisis
The current approach to debt restructuring has failed Zambia.
In a reaction to the outcome of COP28 arrived at in Dubai on Wednesday, Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, has said that the summit’s conclusion is imperfect as the group expected more. bitly.ws/35XsS via EnviroNews
🧵An unprecedented global consensus on ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels’ arrived at #COP28 – it fell drastically short of a ‘phase out’ agreement, but the culprits for that are perhaps not who you first suspect /1 bylinetimes.com/2023/12/12/kee…
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'Keeping Carbon in the Ground' Missed the Point: How COP28 Signals End of Oil
Western hypocrisy nearly scuppered global climate negotiations. But now the direction of travel is clear. Byline Times' columnist sums up his conclusions after addressing the Dubai summit
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