<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Tamara Lorincz" <tlorincz@dal.ca><br><b>To: </b>"WILPF Canada" <wilpfcanada@googlegroups.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, November 29, 2023 7:08:15 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Tamara's QUICK UPDATE FROM COP 28 in Dubai - #1<br></div><div><br><style><!--
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello WILPF-Canada!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m in Dubai, UAE for the climate summit COP 28 on the Canadian Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac) civil society delegation as a representative of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) & the Women’s International League for Peace &
Freedom-Canada (WILPF-Canada). *VOW & WILPF-Canada are members of CAN-Rac: <a href="https://climateactionnetwork.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
https://climateactionnetwork.ca/</a> CAN-Rac had our final pre-COP strategy meeting two nights ago.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The climate summit will be opening today. Yesterday, Climate Action Network International held a big strategy 4.5 hour long strategy session:
<a href="https://climatenetwork.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://climatenetwork.org/</a> *You can follow the developments & negotiations here:
<a href="https://twitter.com/CANIntl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/CANIntl</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Before I left to Dubai, I drafted the joint VOW-WILPF letter to Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault and Canada’s Climate Ambassador Catherine Stewart about a gender-responsive climate action plan, demilitarization
for decarbonization, cutting military spending & not buying fighter jets etc. You can find it on the VOW web site:
<a href="https://vowpeace.org/vowcop28/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://vowpeace.org/vowcop28/</a> *Please retweet:
<a href="https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1730051504428433600" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1730051504428433600</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also drafted and mailed the joint VOW, WILPF, IPB & World BEYOND War open letters to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat to do a study on military emissions and military expenditures for climate finance and to the
Green Climate Fund to advocate that countries reduce & re-allocate military spending. We also sent a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change to raise our concerns about climate change, war and militarism and the need for peace
as a human right for climate. The letters can be read here: <a href="https://vowpeace.org/vowcop28/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
https://vowpeace.org/vowcop28/</a> We will also be sharing on social media.
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<p class="MsoNormal">*Thanks to Patsy & Ellen for feedback and approval along with VOW co-chairs Hannah and Lyn for these letters.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have lots of buttons, banners, signs & handouts on cutting military spending, cancelling the F-35, NATO is a climate killer, peace for climate justice & demilitarization – decarbonization – decolonization.
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<p class="MsoNormal">*I have also made special signs with these messages in English, French & Arabic: Ceasefire Now, Peace & Climate Are Connected, Let Gaza Live, Free Palestine & the Peace Symbol. CAN-Rac is going to do an action.
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<p class="MsoNormal">WILPF International has some great social media to follow on “Demilitarization for Gender Justice & Climate Justice” if you want to follow on Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/WILPF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/WILPF</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Canadian oil & gas industry has big presence at COP this year and has a pavilion. Alberta & Saskatchewan Premiers are coming with many delegates to promote Canada as “clean” energy country. No, Canadian tarsands is very dirty and deadly!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*Watch “Killer Water”, an important new documentary about toxic tailing ponds in Alberta by Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRuV6eOqp6Q" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRuV6eOqp6Q</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Webinar about the documentary: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeI8PecncVU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeI8PecncVU</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can follow CAN-Rac on social media as we try to hold the Trudeau government to account here:
<a href="https://twitter.com/CANRACCanada" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/CANRACCanada</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*I’ll be speaking online with a whole bunch of activists from New York & Dubai “Abolishing Fossil Fuels and Abolishing Nuclear Weapons” on Thursday, November 30th 2023, 12:30-2pm ET (9:30-11pm UAE)
<a href="https://warheadstowindmills.org/events/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://warheadstowindmills.org/events/</a> Tune in if you can!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*The Canada Wide Peace & Justice Network will be issuing a declaration on Peace for Climate Justice ahead of Dec 3 when peace is on the thematic program:
<a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/schedule" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.cop28.com/en/schedule</a> We have finalized the statement and it is on the CWPJN web site now:
<a href="https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/</a> but we will do a big launch with a press release, graphic and online letter campaign in a day or so.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are events related to peace & climate-change, war & militarism listed here:
<a href="https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/cop28" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/cop28</a> and a statement on “Peace @COP28”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not only is COP 28 happening but so is the 2<sup>nd</sup> Meeting of the Party of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, shamefully, Canada did NOT send an official delegation to observe the TPNW meeting. VOW & WILPF-Canada did
send a letter to encourage the federal government to send a team. <a href="https://www.icanw.org/second_meeting_of_states_parties_to_the_tpnw_opens_with_focus_on_the_humanitarian_impacts_of_nuclear_weapons#:~:text=The%20Second%20Meeting%20of%20States,to%20further%20strengthen%20the%20treaty" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
https://www.icanw.org/second_meeting_of_states_parties_to_the_tpnw_opens_with_focus_on_the_humanitarian_impacts_of_nuclear_weapons#:~:text=The%20Second%20Meeting%20of%20States,to%20further%20strengthen%20the%20treaty</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will post things as I can on social media. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More to come. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No wars, no warming,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tamara</p>
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