Environmental Justice Groups Host Response To False Solutions pushed at the UN Climate Ambition Summit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Environmental Justice Groups Host Response To False Solutions pushed at the UN Climate Ambition Summit
Lenape Lands, New York City, NY— National climate justice leaders from organizations representing impacted, frontline communities will be holding a press conference on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 during NYC Climate Week to demand real climate solutions, a Just Transition, climate reparations, and a phase-out of fossil fuels.
Frontline speakers denounce false solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon markets and offsets, climate geo-engineering, nature-based solutions, nuclear power, biomass energy and biofuels, hydrogen energy, and more, that are being pushed inside the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit and advanced by corporate, governmental, and big NGOs during Climate Week. Listen to those on the frontlines opposing these industrial techno-fixes and greenwashed climate schemes and demanding real climate action from the U.S. and Canadian governments.
Press can RSVP here. Registration is required. We encourage the press to send questions in advance via the registration link. This is a HYBRID press conference, held both in-person and over zoom.
WHAT: Press Conference hosted by members of It Takes Roots
WHEN: Tuesday, September 19, 2023,10:30 A.M. — 12:00 P.M. Eastern
WHERE: The People’s Forum, Violeta Parra Stage (ground level), 320 W 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
Speakers:
Tom BK Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Indigenous Climate Action
Adrien Salazar, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Dawn Wells-Clyburn, Climate Justice Alliance (Push Buffalo)
Anthony Rogers Wright, The Black Hive, Movement for Black Lives
What is the It Takes Roots Coalition?
It Takes Roots (ITR) is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations and affiliates in over 50 states, provinces, territories and Native lands on Turtle Island; and is led by women, gender non-conforming people, people of color, Black and Indigenous Peoples. It is an outcome of years of organizing and relationship building across the membership of Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network and Right to the City Alliance. Our four alliances are led by communities on the frontlines fighting for racial, housing and climate justice, and Indigenous sovereignty.