COP29 PRAYERS FOR FINANCIAL JUSTICE

Join us to pray outside the Government department that administers most of our International Climate Finance.

DATE: Friday 8^th November

TIME: 12.30 -1.30pm (with the opportunity to support an earlier action details below)

LOCATION: Central London, outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, King Charles Street SW1A 2AH (what3words ///saying.valley.storm)

The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) will take place between 11th and 22nd  November 2024 in Azerbaijan. The UK Government will be attending. Climate finance will be the critical issue at COP29. Richer nations, including the UK, need to significantly increase their overseas climate spending to enable poorer countries to adapt to and and mitigate the effects of climate change. Alongside our prayers we will be reminding the Government why climate finance is so important with a strong visual message highlighting that things like health, livelihoods, food, childhood, dignity and peace in vulnerable places are dependent on this. Tuvalu needs funds to stop land sinking further, Fiji needs funds to relocate people, Madagascar needs funds for weather resilient rice. We encourage you to bring a placard with your own example.

Join us for lunch afterwards at a local cafe.

POLLUTERS MUST PAY

DATE: Friday 8th November

TIME: Meet at 9:30am

LOCATION: Meeting next to the Royal Festival Hall, in the area next to the Ping Pong restaurant. London SE1 8XX

We will also be supporting an action organised by CAFOD on the morning of November 8th. This will be a “polluters must pay” action, urging the companies who have contributed the most to climate change to pay for the damage they have caused. Please come prepared to walk a couple of miles if you are joining both.

What we’ll be doing:

• We’ll be given yellow tabards and placards with climate finance slogans on them.
• We’ll then head to the Shell building where we’ll get photos and videos.
• After this, we’ll walk to the BP office on the other side of the river. This will take about half an hour. We’ll do the same outside BP.
• We’ll be finished at 12:00 and people will then walk to join the FCDO we are organising at 12:30.
• Please feel free to wear your CCA t-shirt for both parts, but for the CAFOD action the yellow tabards will be used to cover up the t-shirts.

We want the UK Government to carry a strong message to COP29 that the fossil fuel industries and more prosperous countries who have benefited from their profit and growth – at the expense of the lives and livelihoods of the world poorest and most affected by climate change – must provide adequate funds to enable people on the frontlines to adapt.