Indigenous peoples, climate justice groups and environmental campaigners worldwide have called on governments to reject what they described as false climate solutions, warning that approaches such as carbon capture and storage, marine geoengineering and some nature-based solutions could undermine genuine efforts to tackle climate change.
The campaigners made the call during a collective action at the ongoing 31st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Turkey on Tuesday, where they challenged the growing promotion of these approaches as responses to the climate crisis.
The campaign was delivered under the banner, “No False Solutions, But Real Solutions,” where the activists argued that the approaches risk legitimising continued fossil fuel expansion, encouraging the commodification of nature, threatening ecosystems and undermining the rights of indigenous peoples and communities on the frontline of climate change.
They called on governments to prioritise people-led and rights-based climate action, including systemic economic changes, ecosystem
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