[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]For the second year in a row at the UN Climate Talks, the US held an event promoting fossil fuels and nuclear energy as a solution to the climate crisis. Weeks ago, Trump rejected the federal climate report that documents the risk and urgency of climate change across all the United States. According to the report, the climate crisis in the US could kill thousands each year and slash the GDP by more than 10 percent by 2100.
[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”54250″ alignment=”right” animation=”Fade In”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Ten minutes into the side event “Innovative Technologies Spur Economic Dinamysm” at COP24, youth and frontline community leaders disrupted event chanting “Keep it in the ground“, and “shame on you” to the all male panel.
Four representatives from Indigenous youth and Global South communities took the microphone and shared stories about the growig movement in the United States to stop fossil fuel and uranium extraction and advance a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
— Climate Tracker (@ClimateTracking) 10 de diciembre de 2018
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“Our communities, whose every survival is most directly impacted by climate change, have become a living red line. Our air and water are being poisoned by fossil exxtraction, our livelihoods are threatened by floods and drought, our communities are the hardest hit and least protected in extreme weather events – and our demands for survival and for the rights of future generations are pushing local, national, and global leaders towards real solutions to the climate, economic, and social crises.” – José Bravo, Just Transition Alliance, It Takes Roots Delegation.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”54235″ alignment=”right” animation=”Fade In”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”54234″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”54233″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”54236″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Photos: Annamária Lehoczky, Climate Tracker.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]