The latest Civil Society Equity Review report, endorsed by over 300 civil society organisations and social movements, including CIDSE, was released at COP29 in Baku. The 2024 edition mark’s the 10th year since the first Civil Society Equity Review of countries’ climate ambition was released in the lead up to the 2015 Paris Climate Summit.
Fair shares assessment, equitable fossil fuel phase out, and public finance for a just global climate stabilisation, November 2024
The report details the profound damage caused by the Global North’s unwillingness to do their fair share of climate effort, especially related to climate finance, and how that damage is further exacerbated by the organised obstructionism of the fossil fuel industry and the parasitism of the global rich. It shows in detail that there is plenty of money to fund a just, ambitious, effective and equitable global climate transition, even without implementing the deep systemic changes that are also needed. It also details these badly needed system change reforms, divided into more immediate reforms and the longer term objectives, needed to actually allow the world to address growing inequities and stop the climate crisis.
Building on previous Civil Society Equity Reviews, the 2024 edition includes:
- An updated look at NDCs for 2035, including key fossil fuel phaseout demands for the next round of NDCs,
- An examination of the danger of developed countries falling so far short of their fair shares, especially their unwillingness to engage with climate finance discussions on the needed scale of trillions not billions,
- Discussion that the money for climate finance is available and several areas for possible funding,
- The need for system change, with reforms divided between the short term and the long term, needed in order to fully transition away from the fossil fuel addicted and increasingly inequitable society we have today.
The report is designed to speak to the issues that will dominate COP29, and COP30 as well, issues that will determine the future of the multilateral climate regime and the future of the global climate justice agenda.
From the Report:
“The Global North’s negotiators are refusing to engage with numbers of this scale, and by so doing are playing a very dangerous game. In this refusal, they imagine themselves realists, but they are in fact refusing to engage with numbers that have real empirical bases, and by so doing are endangering the UNFCCC regime and, indeed, the entire multilateral system, not to mention any remaining possibility of a stable climate and all that depends on it. True realism lies in the recognition that we actually have the money to save ourselves, and that the reallocation and redistribution of that money is now an existential necessity.”
Cover image: Buildings are seen shrouded in smog in Djakarta, Indonesia on November 7, 2023. Millions of residents of Jakarta have for the past several months suffered from some of the worst air pollution in the world. Credit: Aji Styawan / Climate Visuals