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The Time is Now for Climate Action

The Time is Now for Climate Action

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Young people and future generations will live with the repercussions of what we do today. We must not fail them.
Graça Machel

The Elders call on leaders to:

Stop funding what is harming us and start funding what is needed to secure a liveable future for all.

The Elders call on leaders to:

Recognise that the climate and nature crises require an urgent, collaborative, multilateral response.
For people in the Global South [the climate crisis] is an emergency we are already living through.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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It is in all our interests to provide the necessary climate support and rekindle a genuine spirit of cooperation.
Ban Ki-moon
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The Elders call on leaders to:

Centre the voices, needs and solutions of marginalised groups in climate decision-making.
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Any attempts to ensure climate justice without acknowledging intersecting injustices are doomed to fail.
Ricardo Lagos
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