{"id":62117,"date":"2023-11-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=62117"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:07:04","slug":"cop28-greenpeace-engulfs-minister-guilbeaults-office-in-wildfire-footage-calling-on-canada-to-make-polluters-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/62117\/cop28-greenpeace-engulfs-minister-guilbeaults-office-in-wildfire-footage-calling-on-canada-to-make-polluters-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"COP28: Greenpeace engulfs Minister Guilbeault\u2019s office in wildfire footage calling on Canada to \u2018Make Polluters Pay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.greenpeace.org\/Detail\/27MZIFJFQOV6R\">Photos and videos of the event in Montreal can be found on Greenpeace Media library.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>MONTREAL<\/strong> \u2013 Mere hours before the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) opened, Greenpeace activists <a href=\"https:\/\/media.greenpeace.org\/Detail\/27MZIFJFQOV6R\">displayed<\/a> wildfires on Minister Guilbeault\u2019s office in Montreal to demand that Canada hold the fossil fuel industry to account and make polluters pay for their destruction and harm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\/science\/causes-effects-climate-change#:~:text=Fossil%20fuels%20%E2%80%93%20coal%2C%20oil%20and,they%20trap%20the%20sun%27s%20heat.\">that drives<\/a> the climate crisis. The projection of forest fires alongside a fire truck were a stark reminder of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/climate\/wildfire-season-2023-wrap-1.6999005#:~:text=Total%20area%20burned&amp;text=That%27s%20the%20record%20that%20was,over%20the%20past%2010%20years.\">summer\u2019s devastating wildfire season fueled<\/a> by climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace is demanding that at COP28 the Canadian government commit to a full, fast and fair fossil fuel phase out, introduce a climate damages tax on the Canadian fossil fuel industry to finance the UN Loss &amp; Damage fund, and ensure communities hit hardest by the climate crisis receive the essential assistance they need to face the unavoidable impacts of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe record wildfires of this past summer in Canada gave us a grim experience of the devastation that so many others in the world are already facing. All this while the fossil fuel industry is cashing in record profits at everyone\u2019s expense. It&#8217;s time for the Canadian government to stop enabling the fossil fuel industry to generate vast wealth, and make them pay to address the loss and damage their products cause.\u201d said Salom\u00e9 San\u00e9, climate campaigner with Greenpeace Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>At COP27, governments made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/what-you-need-know-about-cop27-loss-and-damage-fund\">historic commitment<\/a> to establish a new Loss and Damage Fund, and this year they must commit the funds and agree how it is governed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cTo achieve climate justice, those most responsible for causing the climate crisis \u2013&nbsp; the most polluting countries and corporations \u2013 must finance the UN Loss and Damage Fund. It\u2019s only fair that those who fuelled the climate crisis are first in line to pick up the tab,\u201d said San\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What we need from COP28 for success:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For the Paris Agreement warming limit to be kept within reach, the COP28 decision text must hold an uncompromised commitment to a just and rapid phase out of all fossil fuels, with an immediate end to new coal, oil and gas.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Global Stocktake must conclude with outcomes that kick-start transformative action across the board to limit temperatures to 1.5\u00baC and respond to increasing climate impacts with justice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A credible finance package that responds to growing needs is essential. It must include the launch of a new Loss and Damage Fund, and move us closer to making polluters pay for the destruction and harm they have caused.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Notes to editor<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.greenpeace.org\/Detail\/27MZIFJFQOV6R\">Photos and videos of the event in Montreal can be found on Greenpeace Media library.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/11\/f74c0fb0-copy-of-gpca-cop28-greenpeace-media-brief.pdf\">Greenpeace Canada\u2019s COP28: Media Brief<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2023\/11\/2bf4dd7d-greenpeace-cop28-policy-brief.pdf\">Full Greenpeace Policy Briefing&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The Greenpeace delegation will be in the UAE from 30 November with representatives available for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Philippa Duchastel de Montrouge, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pduchast@greenpeace.org\">pduchast@greenpeace.org<\/a>; +1 514 929-8227<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Mere hours before the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) opened, Greenpeace activists displayed wildfires on Minister Guilbeault\u2019s office in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":62132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,25],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-62117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-energysolutions","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62140,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62117\/revisions\/62140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62117"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=62117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}