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Edition 48 |
Monday, 04 November, 2024 |
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Our Voice
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The failing COP system needs an indigenous boost
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Jonathan Watts
Altamira, Xingu River, Amazon
“We are the answer!” There could not be a clearer or more positive statement on the climate and nature crises than the one issued by the Indigenous peoples of Brazil at last week’s United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia. And it could not be better timed as an antidote to the jaw-droppingly terrible decision of many national governments, including Brazil, to expand oil and gas production although – as we show in this issue – it is worsening droughts, intensifying fires and floods, contaminating rivers and causing other sharply deteriorating signs of climate breakdown.
This continued devotion to fossil fuels is so wrong in today’s messed up world that it feels surreal. How can political leaders not respond? Are they living in a different world? It is also astonishingly hypocritical as these same governments are aware of the dangers of global heating to their people, yet they are neglecting their promise to cut emissions.
Next week, the world will come together to try to find answers at the latest UN climate summit, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. As usual, heads will be shaken, speeches will be made and money will be promised. But, also as usual, there is little prospect of real change. Azerbaijan is the third climate COP host in a row that plans to increase oil and gas production. Next year’s host Brazil also intends to boost production. How can the world cut emissions when the agenda is being set by those who want to expand?
The entire system needs radical change. For this reason, SUMAÚMA supports calls for a more powerful indigenous presence in COP30 in Belem. They need a decision-making role so they can fight the climate battle more fiercely. |
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Planet in Collapse
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The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon
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River levels have reached record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, another sign that the vast rainforest basin is slipping toward a point of no return
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SUMAÚMA
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Thought Seeding
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Invisible cities
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How do we deal with droughts and floods? How can we live in human and non-human community, with equity, comfort, and safety? We must tread lightly, our footsteps gentle
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Sidarta Ribeiro
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Howler
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Episode 52
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..as he explores his forest home and tries to understand the humans who threaten it |
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