No Planet B by Lucy Diavolo

Author:Lucy Diavolo [Diavolo, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2020-12-16T22:00:00+00:00

1. SustainUS

While politicians congratulate themselves for addressing the climate crisis with the Paris Climate Agreement, the fossil industry is still able to wield access and power in the negotiating spaces at the U.N. Through symbolic and direct actions, SustainUS brings youth to international negotiations to dismantle the political elite’s narrative and demand stronger, urgent action.

Most recently, SustainUS sent youth delegates to the World Bank meetings in Bali, Indonesia, to speak out on fossil fuel corruption. In 2017, the group organized an action that went viral when youth delegates disrupted the White House panel promoting fossil fuels at the U.N. climate change conference in Bonn, Germany.

Daniel Jubelirer, COP24 delegation leader for the annual United Nations climate conference, spoke to Teen Vogue about the key strategy and role of SustainUS. “We wield storytelling as a weapon against complacency. We are bringing young people who have a lot of lived experience with injustice from climate impacts and racial injustice,” he said.

Phillip Brown, a twenty-year-old queer immigrant from Jamaica and SustainUS COP24 youth delegate tells Teen Vogue, “My presence there was a tangible form of reparation in the sense that Black and brown people don’t have the resources to make it into these spaces, even though we are some of the most impacted by climate crises. By showing up in these international spaces, I am reclaiming what’s been taken from us for centuries, our right to take up space and voice our demands for solutions that center the needs of our most vulnerable communities.”

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