VOW@COP28! We Call for Peace for Climate Justice and to Demilitarize to Decarbonize

Members Tamara Lorincz, Marla Slavner & Kasha Sequoia Slavner are heading to the COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai, UAE. Tamara was selected to join the Climate Action Network-Canada (CAN-Rac) delegation as the VOW representative. Our organization is a member of CAN-Rac.

They are bringing the messages for “peace for climate justice,” “cut military spending for climate finance”, “cancel the F-35 fighter jet” and “demilitarize, decarbonize, decolonize”.

For the first time, peace is on the climate summit thematic program, follow along here.

In advance of COP 28, VOW wrote an open joint letter to Minister of the Environment Steven Guilbeault and Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change Christine Stewart. Our letter was written in partnership with the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-Canada (WILPF-Canada). Read it below.

VOW also wrote a joint open letter to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat calling on it to do a special study on the impacts of military emissions and military expenditures. We co-wrote it with the International Peace Bureau, World BEYOND War and the WILPF-Canada. Read it below.

VOW sent a joint open letter to the Green Climate Fund asking the body to advocate that countries reduce their military spending and re-allocate it to climate finance. We partnered with the International Peace Bureau, World BEYOND War and the WILPF-Canada. Read it below.

Kasha will be speaking on peace, conflict and climate with other youth leaders at the Canada Pavilion: https://www.globeseries.com/pavillon-cop28-pavilion/

Watch Kasha’s trailer “1.5 Degrees of Peace”: https://www.1point5degreesofpeace.com/

3 December, 9-10h, Canadian Pavilion – “Youth-led Climate Action in Conflict” (hosted by Acted Canada, more info here)

3 December, 16h45-17h15, Entertainment & Culture Pavilion – “Fireside Chat & Screening: 1.5 Degrees of Peace” (with Filmmaker Kasha Slavner & Nisreen Elsaim – Former Chair of the UN Secretary General Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change)

5 December, 16h40, Youth Pavilion – “Screening and Introduction to 1.5 Degrees of Peace” (hosted by 1.5 Degrees of Peace)

VOW signed on to the statement “Peace at COP 28: Accelerating Climate Action for Communities Affected by Conflict” organized by the international Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP), read it here.

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We are taking hundreds of buttons and handouts to COP 28. Please download and use them! Send them to your elected official too.

Handout on Why the F-35 Should be Cancelled to Protect the Climate

Handout on Canada’s Carbon Bootprint: The Problem of Military Emissions and Expenditures (English)

Handout on L’Empreinte Carbone du Canada: Le Problème de Dépenses et Émissions Militaires (French)

Handout on NATO is a Threat to People & the Planet (English)

Handout on L’OTAN est un danger pour la planete (French)

Handout on Why NATO is a Climate Killer (English)

Handout of Why NATO is a Climate Killer (German)

VOW is a member of the Global Women for Peace United against NATO: https://womenagainstnato.org/

Follow us on social media at COP 28 @vowpeace

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