COP31 activists urge leaders to act on climate crisis

Activists at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, are calling for immediate action on the climate crisis. Speaking at a news conference on the silence of the talks, the activists warn that the world is heading towards more genocide, ecocides and the loss of basic rights. Activists also accuse the governments and corporations of complicity. The most important piece here is that... Every country can be complicit through the corporations that it hosts and holds, through the partnerships and normalization of ties with Israel that they hold. Complicity with genocide is not just material through oil, it's through, as I said, the media industrial complex, it's through the educational systems that continue to partner up with these countries that fuel genocide further. The leaders that are present, whether they, as Mohammed mentioned, whether they're here or not, does not absolve them of complicity in the harms that are happening in Nepal with our indigenous brothers and sisters in so-called Australia, in Palestine, in my homeland and my own territories on the continent. Whether they show up, showing up means nothing for us when families are unbearable, when you're having to physically bring your family members, your community out from under flash flooding. They're showing up and it's absolutely nothing. In Canada right now, the government, the federal government, is currently expanding major projects under the guise of nation-building. Indigenous leaders across the territory have named that they do not have the free, prior, informed consent to engage. The warning comes after a report by the Climate Action Tracker that said global efforts have failed to significantly reduce emissions. Over the past five years, the report says the world is now heading towards an irreversible breach of the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature limit set by the Paris Agreement.