Shifting money and power: true transformational climate action as a peace and justice multiplier

Shifting money and power:true transformational climate action as a peace and justice multiplier

Date: 10 December 2023 at SE Room 4, COP28 Blue Zone
Time: 11:30 – 13:00 UAE Time

Focusing on a rights-based approach to climate action, this side event explores how money and power shifts in current economic, energy, and military could help accelerate urgent, transformational climate action for a more just and peaceful world.

Climate finance is critical to the different pieces of climate action — mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. Today the global financial system is failing the people and the planet. Governments, financial institutions, intergovernmental organisations and systems, including the state of climate finance under the UNFCCC, continue to accelerate the climate and biodiversity crises, exacerbate poverty, inequalities and injustices and are unfit to fund the transformations urgently needed. And so, this COP should pave way for the transformation of the finance system.

Speakers: Dr Yamina Saheb (IPCC)/Harjeet Singh CAN/Professor Olaf Corry/YOUTH (TBA)/Deborah Burton NorthSouthTippingPoint/Natural Justice/Gunn-Britt Retter (Saami Council)/Land Coalition Moderator: Lindsey Fielder Cook