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PEOPLE’S SUMMIT against European Gas Conference | 22 to 24 March, Viena

Climaximo will be present in the Counter-Summit to the European Gas Conference. Read all about it here.

We will host the session Earth Social Conference – COP is broken. It’s time to get real. on Saturaday, 23rd March at 6 PM.

COP is broken. The UN summits continue to push the bounds of absurdity and leading us to collapse. In 2024, the 29th criminal summit of COP is going to happen again, this time in Azerbaijan, and once more it will be lead by the fossil industry magnates.

What are we, as a movement, going to do about it? What is your organization going to do about it?

Last year, during the criminal summit in Dubai, the first Earth Social Conference (ESC) happened in Casanare, in Colombia. The call out to boycott COP had more than a hundred groups and individuals signing. The Conference in Colombia gathered dozens of climate-realist organizations from different parts of the world who got together due to the need of boycotting COP, making it clear that institutions won’t save us, and taking away political legitimacy from the ones guilty for the ongoing climate and social collapse. Instead we got together to build our own alternative space of coordination and organization for the climate justice movement.

In this session, we want to have an honest conversation about what got us there together in the first place: the analysis that COP is broken and that these summits continue to push the bounds of absurdity and leading us to collapse; and that the movement needs to apply the emergency brake to avoid earth system collapse and refuse to participate in processes of trading empty promises. We’ll present the outcomes of the conference in Colombia – including the physical boycotting of COP30 in Brazil-, and wish to have an honest discussion about what next steps to take as to move forward, at a larger and more ambitious scale, this political process.

In 2023, dozens of organizations chose to participate in a people-powered summit and build our own plans, not legitimizing nor waiting for institutions. In 2024, COP will happen again. What are we, as climate realists, going to do about it?

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