Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  Dear colleagues,     Please find enclosed the latest announcements and advocacy opportunities in preparation for the 2021 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.   The blue navigation bar on the 2021 HLPF website includes a Stakeholders segment. All information contained in these update emails will be available there. The vast majority of advocacy opportunities at the HLPF involve nomination processes which commence with the Major Groups and other Stakeholders. Please see the sub-section dedicated to How to Participate .   If you would like to join one of the Major Groups and other Stakeholders, you can find contact details in the same Stakeholders section of the website under Introduction .   For ease of reference in future update emails, any future headings containing new information will be marked with [update] , whereas upcoming deadlines will be marked as [final call] .   HLPF   HLPF 2021 will be held from Tuesday, 6 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2021,

Dreams vs. the Art of the Possible JOIN US online via Zoom on Sunday 6 June @ 19.00GMT This International Model Citizens’ Assembly explores the priority Actions agreed at our 1st IMCA on April 25th. (See below). The purpose of this second IMCA is to get government, UN, business, youth and NGO Expert Witnesses to review them and determine which have a prayer of being achieved at the Glasgow COP and which should remain in the realm of fantasy? You, the jury and audience, will then determine how far you agree with the experts and reach your own conclusions about which priorities to take forward in our shared advocacy for COP-26 at Glasgow.   voluntary At the Assembly you will – Listen to 5-6 minute presentations from the Expert Witnesses Learn – put your questions / priorities to them; they will answer, discuss and debate them  Deliberate – discuss and prioritise what you know and what you have learned from the witnesses Decide – first the Jury, then the Audience, will vote for their top

Originally published in Inter Press  Service here. By Felix Dodds and Chris Spence The past few weeks brought a burst of optimism on the climate front. It began on April 18 with the US-China announcement on climate cooperation. This was followed in quick succession by the EU Parliament’s vote to cut emissions 55% by 2030, the UK’s promise of a 78% cut by 2035, Japan nearly doubling their commitment from 26% to 46% based on 2013 levels and US President Biden’s pledge of a 50-52% reduction, also by 2030 (compared with 2005 levels). Since such cuts offer a clear pathway to limit temperature growth, only the most ardent cynic would deny it has been a great start to the run up to Glasgow. Not to mention the announcement by a court in the Netherlands  as we wrote this article (26th of May) that Shell will need to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 on 2019 levels this could result in a wave of court action against fossil fuel companies.  An important question now is how do we use the

  Dear colleagues, Please find enclosed the latest announcements and advocacy opportunities in preparation for the 2021 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.   The blue navigation bar on the 2021 HLPF website includes a Stakeholders segment. All information contained in these update emails will be available there. The vast majority of advocacy opportunities at the HLPF involve nomination processes which commence with the Major Groups and other Stakeholders. Please see the sub-section dedicated to How to Participate .   If you would like to join one of the Major Groups and other Stakeholders, you can find contact details in the same Stakeholders section of the website under Introduction .   For ease of reference in future update emails, any future headings containing new information will be marked with [update] , whereas upcoming deadlines will be marked as [final call] .   __   HLPF   HLPF 2021 will be held from Tuesday, 6 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2