FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 21, 2024
Baku, Azerbaijan – ACT Alliance will be holding a media action at COP29 clearly demonstrating visually and through stories that the climate finance needed by vulnerable countries to counter the effects of the climate crisis have not yet been delivered.
The media action will consist of activists with banners, including one of a world on fire and clown suits and toy plastic pistols. They will sing and ask for climate financing from rich countries to help them fight the climate change “fire.” Instead, clowns will arrive with inappropriate “assistance” such as toy plastic water pistols, chocolate coins and coal, oil and gas. The communities will explain what they really need – loss and damage and adaptation finance.
Speakers will be available for interviews during and after the stunt.
Where: Action zone 7, in area D in the Blue Zone
When: November 22, 13h00-13h30 AZT
Climate finance is essential to implementing climate action, yet so far rich countries have failed to deliver what is needed for developing, vulnerable countries. As COP29 negotiates the NCQG, the call is clear: for quality funding at a sufficient level to meet the needs of developing countries for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage.
Developed countries must fulfil their commitments under the Paris Agreement, and the NCQG must ensure clear definitions of finance, transparency, grant-based and publicly funded finance to meet the actual needs of developing countries.
At COP29, ACT Alliance will be reiterating its call for rich countries to pay up, with finance that actually meets the needs of developing countries.
Media contact:
Simon Chambers, Director of Communications, ACT Alliance
WhatsApp: +1-416-435-0972
Email: simon.chambers@actalliance.org
PHOTO: Albin Hillert/LWF
