FIGHT FOR A FOSSIL-FREE FUTURE

Start: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 7:30 PM

End: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 9:30 PM

FIGHT FOR A FOSSIL-FREE FUTURE
End our reliance on fossil fuels — fast, fair and forever!

Date: Tuesday 15th October.
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm.
Venue: BRIG Café, Allison Street, Digbeth, B5 5TH
The meeting will start at 7:30pm but you're welcome to come earlier for refreshments and a free samosa or two. There will also be a bar selling alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks throughout the evening and a pop up climate justice bookshop to browse.

About the meeting

The meeting will be an opportunity for people to come together from across our movement as well as new to campaigning, to meet, socialise and organise for COP29 & the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. This will take place on Saturday 16th November.

The world has no more time for any further delays to the phase-out of fossil fuels. Here in the UK we will be calling on the new government to commit to ending our reliance on fossil fuels - fast, fair and forever!

Speakers:
  • Leon Sealey-Huggins, senior campaigner, global climate justice and the just transition at War on Want. Leon is also an Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development at Warwick Uni. Leon attended COP28 last year.
  • Martin Empson, UK climate activist, author and socialist. Martin is a member of Campaign Against Climate Change and is the treasurer of the campaign's trade union group.
  • More speakers TBC.

Accessibility:
The venue has step-free access and accessible toilets.

During the meeting we will using Powerpoint and speakers.

Please let us know via the booking form if you have any accessibility requirements or alternatively you can email us on info@birminghamfoe.org.uk.

Our demands:

  1. No new fossil fuels — no new finance public or private, no new approvals, licenses, permits, or extensions. The provision of sufficient, consensual climate funding to realise this commitment everywhere.
  2. A rapid, just and equitable phase out of existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5C temperature limit and a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Treaty, to ensure that each country does its part.
  3. New commitments for international cooperation to drastically scale up climate finance delivery and technology transfers to ensure renewable energy access, economic diversification plans, and Just Transition processes so that every country and community can phase out fossil fuels.
  4. Stop greenwashing and claiming that offsets, CCS or geo-engineering are solutions to the climate crisis.
  5. Hold polluters responsible for the damage they've caused and make sure it's coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and for local rehabilitation, remediation and transition.
  6. End fossil fuel corporate capture. No to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling climate talks or undermining the global response to climate change.

Click here to sign our petition

Current list of supporting organisations:

Bee Friendly Brum
Better Streets for Birmingham
Birmingham Fair Housing Campaign
Birmingham Friends of the Earth
Birmingham NEU
Birmingham Peace Hub
Birmingham Race Impact Group
Birmingham Trades Union Council
Campaign Against Climate Change
Climate Justice Coalition
Extinction Rebellion Birmingham
Friction Arts
PCS Midlands
Tipping Point UK
War on Want

Other details
Click here to discover more about the Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition.

The venue has step-free access and accessible toilet. During the meeting we will using Powerpoint and speakers. Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements by emailing us on info@birminghamfoe.org.uk.