Civil Society Actions Send Global Call for a Just Recovery

GLOBAL – A week of actions from the 18th to the 26th September, including a new wave of global climate strikes are calling on world leaders at the UN assembly to #TurnItAround for a Just Recovery from COVID-19 and the climate crisis. Five years have passed since national governments signed historic international treaties and agreements – the Paris climate agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the broader 2030 Agenda to push for a more just and sustainable world. These inter-linked agendas promised to transform the world, to end poverty, to reduce inequality, ensure peace and address the climate crisis. So far, delivery has failed to live up to that ambition. The covid-19 pandemic and subsequent health and economic crisis have thrown into stark relief the disparities and injustice between and within our societies. Access to affordable healthcare, education, employment opportunities, clean energy and nourishing food: it’s on these key markers of human wellbeing that political choices need to be assessed. Instead, economic models rooted in extractivism and inequality have failed us and brought us as close as we’ve ever been to a constant state of disaster. The 2020 pandemic has united the world in grief; it must also mark […]

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