COP27 Mobilisations:This crisis demands action

Nov 12 will see mass mobilisations across the country and put thousands of people on the streets to demand climate justice in solidarity with the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27.

Global temperatures, rising. Energy bills, rising. Billionaire profits, rising. While people are being forced to choose between heating and eating, energy companies are making record-breaking profits. 

From bailouts to big business, ramping up more deadly fossil fuels to trashing nature and cutting our wages the Government is refusing to listen. Their policies both here and globally are causing devastation with working people and people of colour – who have contributed the least to the problem – paying the price with killer famines, floods, crop failures, fires and rising poverty. 

To stop this crisis we need action that cuts carbon, tackles inequality and ends the injustices baked into our world. 

This year world leaders will meet in Egypt for COP27 and African movements have called for a Global Day of Action for climate justice. Communities in the global south need urgent climate finance and reparations for the loss and damages that have caused mass destruction of lives and livelihoods. 

Justice won’t be handed to us by world leaders or delivered by corporations. We need to organise in our communities and ensure that not only is no one is cold or hungry this winter but that we stop the headlong rush into climate catastrophe. 

Get organised and build support for Nov 12.

• Sign & share the Egyptian Human Rights Coalition on COP27 petition demanding the opening up of civic space in Egypt, and the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners.
• The Africa Peoples Counter COP is being organised from 17-21 October, with hybrid events and decentralised actions.
• Egypt Solidarity COP27 Resources and Toolkit: https://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/cop27toolkit/
• Find out about the global fight for Climate Justice and Human Rights in Egypt this year at COP27: https://www.cop27coalition.org