cartoon depicting the chaotic and circus-like atmosphere of COP29 in Baku after 8 days
United Foolspress – UFP: By our correspondent Fritz Freygeist I. live from die baron Munchhausen Pavillion in Baku
Welcome to Baku, where the conference halls are packed with more hot air than the smokestacks of coal plants worldwide! The COP29 feels like a circus featuring clowns, ringmasters, and an impressive cat show — though the true acrobats are the diplomats, desperately trying to leap through the burning hoop of climate finance and avoiding to speak about armament, military emissions and their climate costs.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower made this statement on April 16, 1953, during a speech known as the „Chance for Peace“ speech. He delivered it shortly after becoming President of the United States, addressing the growing costs of the arms race and the Cold War. In this speech, Eisenhower emphasized the moral and economic costs of military spending and the toll it takes on society, especially on those in need.
Vienna – World Peace Day 2024
As we celebrate World Peace Day, it’s vital to confront an uncomfortable truth: the very institutions that claim to protect us—militaries and arms industries—are steadily destroying the planet we live on. Their impact on our environment and climate is severe, and nowhere is this more dangerous than with nuclear weapons, which daily threaten humanity with annihilation.
Helga Kromp-Kolb held lecture at the UNO-City in the Vienna International Center (VIC) on 26th June 2024 on the burning hot topic of the most serious challange of humanity:
‚The Nexus of Global Climate Change, Sustainability and Peace‘
After a crucial Peace conference in Switzerland on the war in Ukraine in Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland[2] on 15–16 June 2024.[3] that brought into sharp focus the intertwined challenges of organized carbon war systems on climate in our time.
Over 65 conflicts raging worldwide Xanana Gusmao of East Timor reminded us that peace efforts must extend beyond Ukraine to address global instability.
Dear climate strikers and fellow activists from around the world, September 15 we stand here in Vienna an all over the world and all not just as part of a movement, but as peaceful warriors for climate protection. We have achieved much, but we should not stand still. Now is the time to go beyond the strike, to hold those responsible for climate destruction in the realms of business, politics, and the military not only accountable. We should take their misused power in our hands and legs and take the necessary giant strides for climate transition und climate peace by disarmament. We are big, we are organised worldwide. We have plans and we will realise it step by step.
Closing panel: Climate security and development beyond the Stockholm Forum
Frieden, Klima, Entwicklung
The 2022 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development (#SthlmForum) will be held on the theme ‚From a Human Security Crisis Towards an Environment of Peace‘.
The closing panel ‚Climate security and development beyond the Stockholm Forum‘, in partnership with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was streamed from 17:00–18:30 CEST.
Tamara Lorincz ist eine bekannte Friedens- und Klimaaktivistin von IKFF/WILPF Kanada, die viele Vorträge auf internationalen Webinaren gehalten hat. Nach ihrer Teilnahme an der COP 27 in Ägypten reiste sie direkt nach Russland, wo sie sich mit Friedensaktivisten und Studenten traf. Es folgten Reisen nach Rumänien, Polen, Lettland und Finnland.
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Tomorrow TFF’s „Transnational Peace Affairs“ will present it’s new online magazine Bootprint. It sources to the (huge) role the world’s military systems play in climate change.
A new SIPRI Searchlight film takes an in depth look at what key stakeholders think about the idea of an institutional home for climate change at the United Nations.
Overall – the film finds – stakeholders do not want to create parallel institutions at the UN, but they are supportive of a coordinating mechanism which will: facilitate speedy analysis of climate related security risks; support better coordination of different actors within and connected to the UN system. And, ultimately, a UN security council which is fit to deal with the complex, overlapping security risks of our time.
