Cop29 starts tomorrow, Legambiente's appeal and the cry for the climate

The message on the eve of the conference of the parties, from tomorrow to November 22 in Baku, Azerbaijan

ROME - The climate crisis is on, reaps damage in every corner of the planet and more and more victims starting from Europe. The old continent, according to the Copernicus study, is warming almost twice as fast compared to the rest of the world with an increase in temperatures equal to approximately double the global average. What do we want?Climate Justice.When do we want it?Now. With these words from Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Padua, Ancona, Perugia and many other cities of the Peninsula, hundreds of Legambiente volunteers this weekend simultaneously launched their Cry for the Climate aimed at COP29 starting tomorrow – from 11 to 22 November – in Baku, Azerbaijan where the central themes will be post-2025 climate finance and emissions cuts.

A scream summarized in video that the environmental association is spreading today with the symbolic images who arrive primarily from Rome, Naples and Milan, together with the appeal he sends to the greats of the Earth: in Baku it will be essential to stipulate international agreements and ambitious climate policies starting from the major themes on the political table of the summit and in this game Europe can and must have a guiding and leading role.The national president of Legambiente explains how.

“In Baku – declares Giorgio Zampetti, general director of Legambiente – it will be essential to reach an ambitious financial agreement to start a new era of climate finance that guarantees financial resources to poor countries.In this match Europe can and must play a central role through strong and global leadership capable of building a bridge between industrialized countries, emerging and developing sectors are crucial to reaching an ambitious post-2025 climate finance agreement that will play a crucial role.Only in this way will it be possible reassure poor and vulnerable countries who will finally have the necessary financial resources available to decarbonise their economies and respond with adequate means to the increasingly frequent and devastating climate disasters.At the same time, it is important for Europe and developing countries to equip themselves with an ambitious climate policy.In particular, Europe will have to set itself the objective of reducing climate-changing emissions by at least 65% by 2030 and 82% by 2035 so that we can achieve climate neutrality by 2040.An ambitious but feasible commitment thanks to the construction of renewable energy production plants which must become the priority for a true mitigation policy, without chasing false solutions such as nuclear power or going back to fossil fuels."

“Despite the foreseeable climate inaction of the new Trump Administration in the United States – adds Mauro Albrizio, head of the European office of Legambiente and correspondent for the association at COP29 – all governments must deal with the increasingly dramatic climate crisis.An immediate change of direction is needed, especially in industrialized and emerging countries.As highlighted by the recent UNEP Emissions Gap Report, we immediately need to implement ambitious climate policies capable of guaranteeing a reduction in climate-changing emissions of at least 7.5% per year over the next decade.Otherwise the continuation of current policies will lead us to a 'catastrophic temperature increase of up to 3.1°C'.As regards the economic support that industrialized countries must guarantee to poor countries in the period 2020-2025 of at least 100 billion dollars per year (and therefore for a total of 600 billion) to help reduce their emissions and adapt to changes climate change, we still need a further step forward to achieve the 600 billion promised by 2025 and double contributions for adaptation compared to 2019 levels (at least 40 billion dollars a year), keeping faith with the commitment signed in Glasgow three years ago.Furthermore, for post-2025 financial commitments, as proposed by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), at least 1,000 billion dollars are needed (400 for loss & damage and 300 for both adaptation and mitigation) per year in resources alone public by industrialized countries.Resources that can be made available also thanks to the taxation of activities with a strong climate impact and the phasing-out of fossil fuel subsidies, capable of mobilizing up to 5,000 billion dollars a year".

CLIMATE PRIDE

Climate protests don't stop here, next Saturday, November 16th at 3.00 pm, everyone in Rome, in Piazza Vittorio, for Climate Pride. It will be a mobilization in the name of "multispecies" climate justice and participated by many ecological, student and social groups, who will converge from all over Italy in a large mobilization to ask for a reversal of direction to the C0P29.