Elizabeth May joins Green leaders of the G7 countries to push for more ambitious goals on climate change
(OTTAWA) - As G7 leaders are meeting in Shloss Elmau in Germany, we, the representatives of Green Parties from participating countries, in view of the upcoming Paris Climate Summit, call upon them to urgently address the climate challenge with more ambition than they have all shown so far.
In particular we express five demands addressing various dimensions of the necessary global political turnaround which is imperative if the international community wants to limit runaway climate change:
- We want an unequivocal and binding pledge by G7 leaders to do everything necessary in order to limit global warming to +2° C maximum.
- We want G7 leaders to shoulder their fair share of the necessary 100 billion US dollars climate financing from 2020 on.
- We challenge G7 leaders to build on existing initiatives in order to create an international carbon pricing system that allows to internalise the externalities of fossil fuel consumption.
- We call upon G7 leaders to finally start acting together in order to make good on the G20 pledge from 2009 to phase out fossil subsidies.
- Lastly we call upon G7 leaders to acknowledge the carbon bubble risk inherent in fossil fuel investment and to move forward in support of the global carbon divestment movement.
Greens will mobilize internationally and coordinate with multiple allies in order to push the realization of the above mentioned goals.
The COP21 in Paris can help changing our trajectory towards a low carbon transition of our economy, combining fair development with global climate responsibilities.
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For additional information or to arrange an interview, contact:
Julian Morelli
Director of Communications
Green Party of Canada
cell: (613) 614 4916
office: (613) 562 4916 (224)
julian.morelli@greenparty.ca