Sevilla, Spain \u2013 Greenpeace activists joined a civil society march today for Global Economic Justice, with a giant float of a baby Elon Musk holding a chainsaw threatening planet Earth. As the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) starts tomorrow in Sevilla, campaigners are calling on world leaders to advance commitments for new and fair global tax and debt rules, and to hold fossil fuel polluters accountable for climate and nature damages.[1] [2]<\/p>\n\n
The conference opens against a backdrop of intensifying conflicts, geopolitical tensions, rising inequality, and accelerating climate and environmental breakdown. The outcome document, the Compromiso de Sevilla, released ahead of the conference, does not go far enough. It delivers on some promises on international tax cooperation and encouraging taxes on environmental contamination and pollution. However, bold language on sovereign debt architecture reform was weakened by Global North governments during the negotiations, and the agreement falls short on responding to the urgency of the climate, nature and social crises.[3]<\/p>\n\n
Fred Njehu, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Global Political Lead for the Fair Share campaign<\/strong>,[4] said: \u201cSevilla is a rare opportunity for global economic justice and for urgent conversations on how billionaires and corporate polluters should pay their fair share of taxes to fund climate action, nature protection and social programmes. World leaders need to listen to what the public wants and deliver a tax system that works for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Eva Salda\u00f1a, Executive Director of Greenpeace Spain and Portugal<\/strong>, said: \u201cMultilateral cooperation is key to addressing global threats and resource gaps for global climate and economic justice. It must not become an excuse for more powerful governments, in the Global North or elsewhere, to water down ambition. We must put people over greed<\/em> and listen to the voices rising from the streets \u2013 in Seville and all over the world. All governments must actively support the UN Tax Convention process and pursue real solutions to the debt crisis, so that we can finally begin to transfer resources away from polluters and the super-rich for the wellbeing of all people and especially for those who are suffering the most from the climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Greenpeace demands reforms in <\/strong>international tax cooperation and public financing for sustainable development. Specifically: <\/p>\n\n Rebecca Newsom<\/strong>, Global Political Lead for Greenpeace International\u2019s Stop Drilling, Start Paying campaign<\/strong>, said: \u201cWhile fossil fuel-driven floods, storms, wildfires and droughts increasingly hit communities around the world, people are crying out for their governments to tax oil, gas and coal corporations to pay for climate-related loss and damage. So what are political leaders waiting for? They must seize the opportunity of Sevilla to make polluters pay \u2013 or face growing public anger for continuing to let dirty industries off the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Hanen Keskes<\/strong>, Campaigns Lead at Greenpeace Middle East North Africa<\/strong>, said: \u201cThis is not the time to lack ambition as civil society is calling for urgent debt relief and structural reform. The burden of debt is undermining the most vulnerable countries\u2019 ability to respond to climate, nature and social crises. Governments must show that they are ready to build a fairer and more sustainable future \u2013 one rooted in justice, not extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n ENDS<\/p>\n\n Members of the Greenpeace delegation in Seville are available for interviews in Spanish, English, German, and Swahili.<\/p>\n\n Photos and Videos can be downloaded via Greenpeace Media Library<\/a> and will be updated throughout the conference. <\/p>\n\n Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n [1] Greenpeace Spain\u2019s float of Elon Musk measures 2 metres wide by 3.5 \u2013 4 metres high.<\/p>\n\n [2] The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)<\/a> is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture. FFD4 Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre (30 June \u2013 3 July 2025)<\/p>\n\n [3] The Compromiso de Sevilla: Outcome | FFD4<\/a><\/p>\n\n Contacts in Seville:<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greenpeace activists joined a civil society march today for Global Economic Justice, with a giant float of a baby Elon Musk holding a chainsaw threatening planet Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":58164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"Plastic Free Future","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"Plastics","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[46,39],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-58162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-changemycommunity","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-greenpeaceafrica","tag-socialjustice","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58166,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58162\/revisions\/58166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58162"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=58162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Tal Harris, Global Media Lead \u2013 Stop Drilling Start Paying campaign, Greenpeace International. +41-782530550,\u00a0tharris@greenpeace.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0
Bego\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez, Media Lead \u2013 Climate Responsibility Team, Greenpeace Spain & Portugal. +34 605248097,\u00a0begona.rodriguez@greenpeace.org<\/a>
Additional contacts:<\/strong>\u00a0
Christine Gebeneter, EU Communication lead, Greenpeace CEE based in Austria, +43 664 8403807,\u00a0christine.gebeneter@greenpeace.org<\/a>\u00a0
Lee Kuen, Global Comms Lead \u2013 Fair Share campaign, Greenpeace International. +601112527489,\u00a0lkuen@greenpeace.org<\/a>
Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours),\u00a0pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n