Event Type: Meeting

What are climate reparations? Who is calling for them? Why are they needed to ensure climate justice?

Come and hear from our speakers about the case for climate reparations, ask questions, explore the issues and the solutions, and consider the actions we might take here in Scotland to recognise the damage done, and to ensure a just transition to a fossil fuel free world.

Speakers

• Lumumba Di-Aping, longstanding climate justice advocate from South Sudan and chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing countries at the landmark UN climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009

• Further speakers tbc

At the Copenhagen climate summit more than a decade ago, our keynote speaker, the chief negotiator for the group of 77 countries in the global south Lumumba Di-Aping, called out countries in the global north for ‘colonising the sky’. He also called out the leaked text of the Copenhagen climate treaty as ‘climate genocide’, asserting that ‘we [the countries of the global south] have been asked to sign a suicide pact’.

Lumumba’s comments were in response to repeated attempts by rich countries to block climate action and shut down any global agreement on reparations, in recognition of the global north’s historic responsibility for climate change.

Twelve years later, at the COP26 in Glasgow last November, rich countries were still blocking attempts to agree compensation for climate damages. However, the Scottish government has spoken out in support of compensation for loss and damage from climate change, and Scotland was the first rich country to pledge to give money specifically for this at the UN climate summit last year.

For centuries, reparations activists and communities across the global south have demanded reparations and planetary repairs in response to colonialism. Now they are increasingly calling for climate reparations in response to climate breakdown.

Colonialism created the world that gave us climate breakdown and also brought the beginnings of debt, unfair trade rules and corporate power that have led to the deep inequalities of wealth and power in the world, and also to climate injustice. Western governments and fossil fuel companies bear much responsibility, yet they rarely acknowledge their role.

There cannot be climate justice without reparations. Not just monetary compensation for the losses faced by the global south, but repairing the damage done by climate change and ending the economic violence that’s driving it.

We invite people to come along to hear our excellent speakers, but also to ask questions and explore the issues, and solutions.

Picture: Maddy Winters, Against the Grain photography

Mix and mingle with local community groups and be the first to hear about plans for the new Edinburgh Climate Action Hub.

You can also enjoy a preview of #ourEdinburghneighbourhood’s 20-Minute Neighbourhoods exhibit.

Thank you event host #ourEdinburghneighbourhood at the pop-up Urban Room entered through Linton & Co coffee bar on top of
Waverley Mall – next to Waverley Steps escalator from the rail station
up to Princes Street

About Edinburgh Climate Action Network & Hub

We’re uniting community groups across the city and inviting everyone to take part in the development of the new Edinburgh Climate Action Hub.

How the Hub works and what it will do is to be shaped by the communities of Edinburgh. The aim is to support, inspire, and build capacity and connections. This could include: specialist support to develop your ideas, projects, and organisation; training sessions, events, resources and tool kits; as well as the sharing of knowledge, skills, and inspiration as we create a thriving, sustainable future.

For more visit sccan.scot/edinburghcan

You can also get all the latest Network news and event invitations by subscribing to our email updates, and following @ScotCCAN #EdinburghCAN on your social media channels.

What are pollinators? Why is it necessary for seed-saving? And what role do bees, butterflies and other insects play?

Come along for a two-part workshop made up of an introduction to beekeeping by Daniel MacGhee and a guide to butterfly identification by Isobel O’Donovan.

Take a stroll through the garden and explore the habitat of butterflies and moths, identify our local species, and learn which flowers to sow to attract pollinators. Then, open up a hive to discover the busy lives and habits of honeybees, and how to take care of a colony.

The workshop will close with a discussion about the importance of pollinators and ways we can protect and support them in our gardens.

Protective bee suits will be provided for participants. Please bring water and a snack or packed lunch for when we take a short break in the garden.

Climate Camp Scotland is back! On 28th July – 1st August we’ll be living, learning and taking action together at a beautiful location somewhere  in Aberdeen: we will announce the exact location prior to the camp.

Our camp will create a base for mass action, and offer a space for workshops, discussions, music, art, and visioning a future beyond fossil fuels. We want to build a space where people can learn, share ideas, and take action together – join us and spread the word!

We’ll share much more details in the coming weeks, in the mean time use this form to express your interest and encourage your pals to sign up too. You can also take part in shaping the camp by joining our Slack for details of working groups and up and coming meetings and socials.

Climate Camp Scotland is back! On 28th July – 1st August we’ll be living, learning and taking action together at a beautiful location somewhere  in Aberdeen: we will announce the exact location prior to the camp.

Our camp will create a base for mass action, and offer a space for workshops, discussions, music, art, and visioning a future beyond fossil fuels. We want to build a space where people can learn, share ideas, and take action together – join us and spread the word!

We’ll share much more details in the coming weeks, in the mean time use this form to express your interest and encourage your pals to sign up too. You can also take part in shaping the camp by joining our Slack for details of working groups and up and coming meetings and socials.