ICAatCOP29 Weekly Round-up
ICA delegates in between events; COP29 Baku
Week 2 Highlights
ICA’s COP29 delegation is now home and resting up after three weeks away. A lot happened during week 2 of ICA at COP29 and we’ve collected a high level round-up in case you missed anything along the way!
Negotiations Ramp Up
Day 8-12 | NovEmber 18-22, 2024
ICA releases ICAatCOP29 Weekly Round-up to recap events, negotiations, and interventions that happened in our first two weeks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Delegation continues attending daily briefings in addition to observing negotiations and collaborating on position papers with the IIPFCC on key topics like Article 6, Climate Finance, Just Transition, and New Collective Quantified Goals (NCQG).
Eriel shares an update on Day 8 of ICA at COP29.
In an interview with Reuters, Eriel highlights how carbon credits have pulled attention away from real climate action like holding companies accountable in cutting their own emissions.
ICA panel at Indigenous Peoples Pavilion; COP29 Baku
Delegation attends several side events at the Indigenous Peoples’ Pavilion including events hosted by the Assembly of First Nations and the Metis National Council.
During an interview with CBC, Eriel calls for direct access to global finance funds.
Eriel joins WECAN for a press conference on Women Leading Fossil Fuel Phaseout and A Just Transition.
Eriel sharing ICA publications; COP29 Baku
ICA hosts a Land Back is Climate Policy panel at Indigenous Peoples’ Pavilion to offer a sneak peak of our forthcoming report on decolonizing climate policy. Speakers highlight the importance of youth inclusion in climate policy, how the discussion of land rights need to come before any other climate policy, and how we need to shift away from paternalistic policies and toward Indigenous-led solutions.
Eriel speaks on the WECAN panel Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Democracy Now highlights Eriel in their November 19 Headline, “These carbon markets are literally putting our lands and territories up for land grabs and to allow the sanctioning of multinational corporations to have a system to sort of simply buy themselves out of continuing to pollute.”
Eriel highlights ICA’s report, Indigenous Rights and Sovereignty in National Climate Policy: A Systemic Analysis, during the panel event Land Rights for Climate Justice.
ICA cohosts a press conference, In Solidarity for a Decolonized World, with our friends at CAN-Rac to highlight the collective responsibility of decolonizing climate policy.
ICA’s COP29 Delegation
As negotiations are coming to a close, IIPFCC releases a statement denouncing the draft NCQG text for not including a single reference to Indigenous peoples.
IIPFCC reads a powerful statement during the closing plenary session to officially close out the UNFCCC COP29 Baku.
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