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Climate action is my love language 💛 Founder & Executive Director, Destination Zero | Advisor @NZAB_Canada | Board @CANRacCanada | Keynotes

Ottawa, Ontario

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Joined March 2013

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Catherine Abreu

6 months

Huge news! I am humbled and honoured to be named this year's national hero by Canada's Walk of Fame! For me, this award goes out to every climate activist across this beautiful land working their butt off every day to protect the people and places they love 💚

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Canada’s Walk of Fame

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Introducing internationally renowned climate champion Catherine Abreu ( @catabreu_ ) as the recipient of the 2023 @cwofame #NationalHero Honour! Catherine’s achievements will be recognized during the #CWOFame Broadcast, airing Dec 16, on @ctv .

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

Climate action isn’t about individual sacrifice. That’s a lie you’ve been told. It’s the job of governments to make climate-safe choices the easiest, most convenient choices to make. Climate action is about changing the world together, not changing our lifestyles alone. 1/

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2 years

Can we stop putting “natural” in front of “gas”? One of the most successful greenwashing efforts of all time. We don’t call it “natural wind” or “natural sun” - or “natural coal”, for that matter. The nature of gas is that it’s a fossil fuel whose combustion causes climate change

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2 years

BREAKING: at #COP27 , the UN Secretary General’s high-level expert group is releasing a new standard to turn empty net-zero commitments into meaningful climate action. Stick with me for details - it’s very good news 🧵

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In 8 years of attending climate talks, I have never felt so much like we're getting real about what matters. It's kind of blowing my mind. Day 11 of #COP28 , and the Arabic tradition of Majlis has Ministers talking straight about the realities of phasing out fossil fuels 🧵

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3 years

This is HUGE. Round of applause in the Quebec National Assembly as the province makes history by declaring the end of fossil fuel extraction on its territory. 👏🏽👏🏽

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Quebec Premier @francoislegault : "The gov has decided to definitively renounce the extraction of hydrocarbons on its territory"💥💥💥 This is the result of YEARS of organizing and a signal for other provinces, Canada, and the rest of the world, right before #COP26 . #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

Who invented this lie about individual responsibility for climate change? I’m sure you can guess. Who is most interested in shifting the blame? Who benefits most from you being demoralized and hopeless, thinking you have to do all this work alone? /2

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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca...

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action

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Catherine Abreu

1 year

A tale of two COPs in Sharm El Sheikh: On one hand a landmark decision to establish a loss and damage fund to address the devastating consequences of climate change, on the other a major failure to finally name and tackle the cause of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. #COP27

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"We can not jump from a rope we are hanging from, if the other rope is not ready. We are trying to jump from one rope, but the other rope is not ready. And we do not have time. We have to align the economic and financial system to this transition"

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The world has declared the end of the fossil fuel era at #COP28 . This is an extraordinary turning point for these negotiations that has come far later than it needed to. Policy makers and investors take note: you will be held to this decision. No loopholes, no delay.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

For some in the comments: this isn’t a dismissal of the power of individuals to take action- which, as a career activist, I’ve dedicated my life to empowering. This is a statement about the myth of individual sacrifice to solve climate change perpetuated by the fossil industry.

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2 years

HLEG Chair @cathmckenna gives us the highlights. From now on, a real commitment from businesses, investors, and cities to #NetZero must mean: 🚫No more fossil fuels - that means no new oil, gas and coal projects and no new $$ for fossils

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

🎊Founding members of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance redefining climate leadership at #COP26 👏🏽👏🏽 Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Quebec, Sweden and Wales as core members; California, New Zealand, and Portugal as associate members; Italy as a friend of #BOGA

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

On my way to annual UN climate negotiations #COP27 in Egypt to remind global governments that the world isn’t in an “energy crisis”. We’re in a fossil fuel crisis.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

UN Secretary General @antonioguterres on the stage now emphasizing one of the biggest recommendations in the report: 📜 Net-zero pledges need to move from voluntary commitments to regulated requirements. Otherwise they risk greenwashing and creating an uneven playing field.

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Catherine Abreu

1 year

An oil company CEO can’t be the President needed at #COP28 -or any set of talks designed to address the #climate crisis. We saw vested interests hamstring 80+ countries’ efforts to get a commitment to phase-out fossils at #COP27 . Here we go again. 1/3

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UAE names oil chief to lead COP28 climate talks - BBC News

The CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has been chosen as president-designate of key climate meeting.

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

I am a stubborn climate optimist. I believe we’re up to the task of tackling the climate crisis. I believe we can build societies that care about people & planet more than profit. I believe justice seeking communities will win. Who’s with me? #COP26 #PayUp4LossandDamage

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

🌳No deforestation 💨No hot air offsets instead of real, immediate emissions reductions 🌐A commitment to reducing emissions across the full supply-chain - that means NZ commitments must address scope 1,2, AND 3 emissions

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

Some of the most powerful words I’ve ever heard

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Collin Rees

3 years

“The next time someone says ‘fossil fuel subsidies’, remember they are talking about our so-called ‘leaders’ using working people’s taxes to invest in the deaths of children & the planet.” – @kuminaidoo at #COP26 on why it’s a crucial necessity to #StopFundingFossils immediately

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

Draft text from #COP28 dropped this morning at 5am. Here's a look at where we stand on the push for this set of UN climate talks to deliver global agreement to phaseout fossil fuels and scale up renewables and efficiency:

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

@dvlahov Individual action has value, absolutely. It’s just not going to fix the issue. At the height of covid lockdown in April 2020, most people around the world stopped doing most emitting activities in our control. Global emissions only ⬇️17%. Over 80% of emissions aren’t in our hands

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

I’m crying. 11yrs ago the Senate killed Jack Layton’s climate accountability bill after it passed the House of Commons. Today, after a hard-fought 5yr campaign led by @CANRacCanada + members + allies, #BillC12 is here to change the game. No more broken climate promises ✊🏽😭🎉

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Bill #C12 has been adopted at third reading in the Senate: #SenCA #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

When environmentalists criticize oil and gas, we’re not criticizing the people who work in it; we’re criticizing the profit model it operates on, which privatizes all the benefits of the industry and socializes all the costs. #cdnpoli #cdnecon #ableg

How to Persuade Workers It's Time to Move on From Oil and Gas

With crude prices crashing and companies looking to government bailouts, climate change activists are sharpening their pitch to hard-hit industry workers.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

👩‍⚖️No lobbying to undermine ambitious climate, energy, and environmental policies, either directly or through business associations 📈 Aligning capital expenditures with net zero targets & linking executive compensation to climate action and demonstrated results

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

You know something is broken when those demanding climate justice are pushed outside of the climate conference and those delaying climate action are allowed to stay inside.

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Breaking: Police have rounded up thousands of indigenous & southern leaders, students & others protesting #cop25 for weak action & pushed them out a side garage door. #keepitontheground

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Catherine Abreu

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UN climate talks have been discussing emissions for 30 years. Guess what? Emissions higher than ever. 2023 the hottest year on record. We feel the results of talking about emissions w/out talking about their source. #COP28 must be the COP to directly name the problem:fossil fuels.

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

WOW I am so so honoured. Jack is such a hero of mine; to receive an award in his name leaves me speechless. Thank you @broadbent and thank you to my team @CANRacCanada and thank you everyone else without whom my work could not happen 🥳😭💚 Onward!

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Broadbent Institute

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Catherine Abreu ( @cat_abreu ) as the recipient of the 2020 Jack Layton Progress Prize for her international leadership on climate policy and action, and transformative work as Executive Director of @CANRacCanada . Learn more about their amazing work here:

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

EU: we have no choice but to follow the science and align our Paris Agreement pledges to 1.5. This will happen through a variety of measures, including phaseout of fossil fuels. "This will be a massive transition, no mistake. But the sooner we do it, the less painful it will be"

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

🎉This is a really big deal. Surprise move from Canada to join 20 countries in committing to end international public financing for fossil fuels. 🇨🇦 is the biggest spender on this front in the G8. Round of applause 👏🏽 #cdnpoli Next up: ending domestic public $ to fossils 👇🏽👌🏽🧵

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A historic moment at #COP26 #Energyday : 20 countries incl. #UK #US #Canada agree to end international direct public finance in ALL unabated #FossilFuels by 2022, shift the billions to #cleanenergy . Why this is such a big deal and what must happen next? 1/8

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

What an incredible experience to get to speak to @SpeakerPelosi and @AOC alongside other U.S. lawmakers today about the need to stop expanding fossil fuel production and create good jobs in a climate-safe economy! (And yes they’re both totally amazing and lovely irl 🤩)

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

I love my emissions cap. Can’t wait for Canada to have one!

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

My morning is a mess of tears. Such grief for our perfect planet, my fellow people suffering & dying amidst conflict & climate chaos, non-human species being decimated by human tyranny. We’re so often asked to share our hope, but it’s just as important we share our heartache 💛

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1 year

First draft of final decision text for #COP27 released last night. On equitable energy transition: ✔️ref to the need to accelerate energy transition ✔️ref to the need to escalate investments in efficiency & renewables ❌nothing on what we’re transitioning from - coal, oil & gas

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

💥I've joined @e3g as a Senior Associate! Having worked with so many brilliant people at this organization over the years, I'm excited to contribute to their international climate policy and diplomacy work to accelerate the global energy transition.

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Catherine Abreu is a Senior Associate at E3G working on international climate policy and diplomacy to accelerate the global energy transition.

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You know #COP28 is on the precipice of delivering an historic outcome that will change the game in the global transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy and energy efficiency when Opec starts to panic.

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💥Opec oil cartel is *very* worried about the prospect of #COP28 deciding to back a fossil fuel phase out, according to leaked letters seen by the Guardian 🧵1/8

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

As an Atlantic Canadian whose family had to leave NS to find work, I feel how hard things are in NL and get that #BayduNord seems like a silver bullet. But the fundamental truth is the climate can’t handle any new fossil fuel projects. 1/2 #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

6 years

Hoping 🇨🇦 politicians who think they can get away with saying they care about climate change while doing nothing about it are watching the world #RiseForClimate today. Canadians are next and we won’t stop until we get the action the world needs from us.

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Catherine Abreu

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15.2 million hectares of forest burned in Canada so far in 2023 -an area larger than Nepal. Climate change caused by fossil fuels made these fires twice as likely & scientists have tied them directly to 88 fossil producers. Our home is on fire. #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever

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Catherine Abreu

6 years

Working on climate change is an act of love. And so these moments hurt - moments where ambitious climate policy is undermined by expanding fossil fuel infrastructure. They enrage. And we fight because we have to to protect what we love. #climate #CDNpoli

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Working on climate change is an act of love

Those of us who dedicate our lives to this effort, in whatever setting we choose to work, do it because we love our families, our children, the lake we swam in as teenagers, the communities we have

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8 months

Fossil fuels are the cause of climate change. An obvious fact that has taken over 30 years to echo through the halls of the United Nations. That changed forever today at the Climate Ambition Summit. Today is a gamechanger for the global climate regime. The veil has been torn off.

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Catherine Abreu

1 year

Wanting ALL fossil fuels to be included: India Tuvalu- then all of AOSIS Colombia- then all of AILAC EU- member states of @beyondoilgas strong Switzerland New Zealand Iceland UK US (?!) Norway (W Europe biggest producer, ok!) Australia (guys: Australia) Canada (yes, even Canada!)

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

Abatement technology has a role but should be reserved for hardest to abate sectors. Fossil fuel subsidies that don't address energy poverty or just transition need to go.

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This is an economic challenge for both producers and consumers. EU is ready to work with partners to understand what financial support has to be provided to triple renewables and double efficiency by 2030 and "achieve and energy system predominately free of fossil fuels by 2050"

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Catherine Abreu

5 years

At 1.6% of global emissions 🇨🇦 is in the top 10 of the world’s biggest polluters and Canadians emit more per person than pretty much anyone anywhere else. Pretty sick of hearing Canadian action on climate change won’t make a difference.

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Canada has one of the largest economies in the world. We emit 3x more GHGs per person than the global average. If we don't embrace sensible climate policies, why should smaller countries bother? #cdnpoli #climate

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

🧾Only 1/3 of publicly traded businesses have committed to net-zero, even fewer private state-owned entities. Commitments that do exist are poor quality with little accountability. The solution: way more transparency and public reporting, including a public dashboard.

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Another note from me -During the Majlis, I've been recalling the Pacific tradition of Talanoa that was introduced by Fiji at COP23. Cultural traditions stretch the heart of these too technical talks. A reminder of the power of traditional knowledge on Indigenous Day at #COP28 .

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Colombia: when we made the commitment to transition our economy away from fossil fuel production, which has ruined other sectors of our economy, we thought we would be able to bring that commitment into this process. But rather we have been confronted with the reality of power.

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

Supreme Court of Canada just dropped a love letter to the planet: 💚“ #Climate change is real. It results from human activity & it poses a grave threat to the future of humanity. [It] causes harm beyond provincial boundaries & is a matter of national concern” 💚 #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

5 years

Canada has missed every #climate target it has ever set. Today 33 🇨🇦 organizations urged @JustinTrudeau & @cathmckenna to take a more robust approach to climate accountability so we never miss another. The world is watching at #COP24 . We must do better.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

And that’s a wrap. Read the full report! Congrats to HLEG members @cathmckenna @Starbuck @GhoshArunabha @BillHareClimate Camila Escobar @LopesInsights Zhou Xiaochaun,Gunther Thallinger,Helena Fiestas, @jfelson Jessica Omukuti @jlevyoficial @ZeniZeniMalango

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4 years

My impression of the men email me every damn time I make a public appearance: “Hey I’ve noticed you getting noticed for your work. So cute. Well I’m no expert but I am a man and I know how you can do way better. Ever heard from a man before? Get ready to have your world rocked.”

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1 year

The entire climate & environment sector trying to understand nuclear fusion and its potential today.

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5 months

Colombia expresses empathy for Saudi Arabia. "What is is the response from the world to the fact that they need to transition an entire economy dependent on fossil fuels?" Note from me: we often call KSA out for blocking tactics; this expression of care brings tears to my eyes.

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2 years

👷🏾‍♀️HLEG member @ZeniZeniMalango now talking about net zero plans needing to have #JustTransition at their core. This requires financial institutions and multinational corporations to work with governments and Multinational Development Finance Institutions to be more ambitious.

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Catherine Abreu

5 years

Whoa! So touched to be acknowledged as one of the world’s most influential people in climate policy. It’s wild to share this honour with some of the most fearless heroes of the moment - @GretaThunberg @President_Heine @AOC @KHayhoe , just to name a few. Thank you @apoliticalco ! 💚

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Apolitical

5 years

Exclusive: The World's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy 2019 Congratulations to the inspirational people, from youth activists to academics, who are transforming policy to protect the world against climate change 🌍 Check out the full list.

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

1/5 I’M SO TIRED (a thread) @JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @JonathanWNV - I’m sure you’re tired, too. It’s been a hard year. I believe you care about climate change. But your good intentions aren’t going to cut it. We don’t have decades. We need transformative action NOW #cdnpoli

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LISTEN: Federal Environment Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, tells @CBCStephenQuinn it would be silly for Canada not to extract natural resources for energy in the coming decades.

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Catherine Abreu

1 year

It is unfortunate the UN climate talks once again failed to live up to the science, which is clear that climate action = fossil phase-out. But don't be fooled: this outcome won't stop the inevitable progress moving toward cheap, secure & resilient energy efficiency & renewables.

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

I don’t often talk about politicians publicly. But I’ve spent years watching @cathmckenna exhaust herself in service to the climate & her constituents. Her dedication has achieved real results, even amidst bs misogynist attacks. Huge respect and thanks👏🏽 💛

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Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna announces she won’t seek...

Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna holds a news conference in Ottawa to officially announce she will stand down in the next election. She will...

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President encourages Ministers to speak from their heart, and Colombia comes right in to do just that 😭

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

Who is going to triple renewable energy? Those who have access to capital at 5% or at 30%? Where is the equity when we have to access capital with such high interest rates

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Catherine Abreu

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Adaptation is critical. We need to secure things such as access to water, health, biodiversity and food security. EU thinks that we need to double public assistance when it comes to adaptation financing up to 40 billion by 2025.

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

Canada: the world’s 9th largest GHG emitter; a top 10 emitter for over 100yrs; the 10th largest economy on the planet. Guess what that means? We owe the world a whole lot more #climate action. At #COP25 , @CANRacCanada unveils our new take on a 🇨🇦 fair share of 1.5 #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

4 years

Here's what I had to say to countries delaying #climate action at #COP25 : Public mobilizations are swamping the streets. The status quo you are working so stubbornly to protect is not working for people or the planet. Rest assured everything will change.

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Energy transition should be aligned with securing energy access for all and fighting energy poverty. Many developing countries will need support including through finance, cb and technology.

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Day 12 of #COP28 has members of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance calling for strong outcomes on fossil fuel phaseout & just energy transition. @beyondoilgas co-chair, Danish Minister @DanJoergensen , tells us why this has to happen this year to avoid “catastrophe”

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Catherine Abreu

5 years

What's up with climate not being on the list @theJagmeetSingh ?

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NDP lays down requests for Trudeau while beginning its own election postmortem

Jagmeet Singh said the NDP want the Liberal minority to support a future private members’ bill on pharmacare, and to drop an appeal on a tribunal decision involving Indigenous children

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Catherine Abreu

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PM Trudeau was just asked on the world stage @UN #ClimateAmbitionSummit what he plans to do about Canada being one of the largest fossil fuel expanders. Guess 🇨🇦 won’t be given credit for climate leadership while ignoring its biggest source of climate pollution anymore. #cdnpoli

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Catherine Abreu

3 years

🔈🥲 After 5 incredible, whirlwind years, I am entering into my final days @CANRacCanada . It has been an honour to help lead this network, and I can’t wait to see what the CAN-Rac team and all of our remarkable members and allies in the Canadian climate community do next. ⤵️

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1 year

The fossil fuel industry and the elites in their pocket rallied to take over #COP27 . This is the last act of desperate men who first denied climate science, then delayed climate policy, and now want to usurp real climate solutions with false ones.

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What is the fossil-fuel industry doing at COP27?

Its representatives are mainly shilling gas

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1 year

Amazing clarity from @Luisamneubauer “This COP must be the COP where the fossil fuel era comes ends. We are here because we won’t compromise on the truth. We won’t compromise on lives. We know a renewable energy future that is just is possible. We are not fooled” #phaseoutfossils

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4 years

The only thing more disastrous than the state of UN climate negotiations at #COP25 is the state of the global climate.

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4 years

Not a lot of #ParisAgreement countries in the #COP25 plenary hall, but there sure are a lot of reps of #oilandgas exporters on the stage as I wait to give the global environment movement’s intervention from the floor. Thought I was at a climate conference.

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Final hours of #COP26 =a show-down on phase-out of unabated coal& inefficient #FossilFuel subsidies w/ support for #JustTransition . Even this tepid language is a wedge-it’s up to the ongoing energy shift & people in the streets to blow the door open to a just fossil free future✊🏽

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Breaking: Colombia just became the latest member of @beyondoilgas ! The largest producer to join the Alliance to date, Colombia’s commitment to a just transition away from the economic volatility of fossil fuels is a torch of leadership lighting up a dark year of climate chaos.

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En nombre del gobierno colombiano, en mi calidad de ministro de @MinEnergiaCo firmé un importante convenio para convertirnos en un país amigo de la iniciativa mundial BOGA - “Más Allá del Petróleo y el Gas”. Una alianza suscrita entre Dan Jørgensen, Ministro de Cooperación,…

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Fossil fuel phase-out is further weakened in the latest draft agreement out of #COP26 . A series of vague refs to maybe transitioning to kind of cleaner energy and trying not that hard to phase-out “unabated” coal power and “inefficient” subsidies. This is not keeping 1.5 alive.

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The fight for climate action is first and foremost a fight for justice. I stand in solidarity & pledge to fight racism, white supremacy, colonialism, & any violent, institutionalized injustice that both worsens & is made worse by the climate crisis. Resources I'm reading:

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Catherine Abreu

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🔊Tomorrow morning, Costa Rica & Denmark will invite countries to join a new global alliance of first movers committed to ending new oil and gas exploration and extraction in the name of #climate ambition🔥 This is big. #unga #EnergyActionDay #ClimateAction #ClimateWeekNYC

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🎉👏🏽Another GIANT WIN for the #climate as #California makes history to protect people and the planet by banning gas fracking and setting an end date for oil extraction! Domino effect is officially upon us. Who’s next?? 👀 #COP26 #BOGA

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Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment

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Today, we have a: ✅fracking ban for 2024 ✅an official end date for oil extraction in CA ✅a draft public health & safety setback rule of 3200 ft. A year ago, we had none of this. We must now strengthen and expand the rule, but taking a moment to appreciate how far we've come.

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Catherine Abreu

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You know what I’m really noticing? A lot of blue check marks beside the names of influential men in my Twitter circles, and almost no blue check marks beside the names of influential women. What’s up with that @Twitter ? It has nothing to do with follower counts.

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Catherine Abreu

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Speaking of cool, hardcore, and fun #WomenLeadingonClimate , @cathmckenna wears her #EmissionsCap while calling out oil & gas for wasting billions on advertising and shareholder profits while demanding billions in public subsidies. High time to tax windfall o+g profits!

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China comes in next. 🙏🙏 to our CSO translators! "We are running a marathon together. We need to act. Why a marathon and not a sprint? Because, whether it’s the green transition or climate change, it’s a process. Developed countries need to run faster."

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

I’ll never stop being shocked that the UN process has spent five decades avoiding talking about fossil fuels while attempting to talk about the ecological damage they cause, including climate change. It’s wild that it took this long, and it’s big that it’s finally happening.

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alex rafalowicz

2 years

We’re waiting for the actual text to be released but it seems that #stockholm50 might be the first UN conference to clearly recommend the “phase out of all fossil fuels” and to recognise the urgent need for “financial and technical support to realise a just transition.”

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4 years

Am I encouraged by environmental changes resulting from lockdown? No. Like most environmentalists, I don’t celebrate short-term gains that come along with such suffering. But there are some big lessons for us to take from this moment. Check out my chat with @globalnewsto about it

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Global News Toronto

4 years

The pandemic and our environment. @CANRacCanada 's @cat_abreu joins @AntonyRobart to discuss the impacts COVID-19 has had on our climate as the world comes to a halt - and whether these are positive effects.

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Tuvalu comes in now on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). "We have been saying two things loud and consistently: one, we must not compromise 1.5; two, we need to strengthen our commitment to phasing out fossil fuels"

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2 years

🔋Here’s a big one - Helena Vines Fiestas of @BNPPAM_COM shares a recommendation for a multilateral net-zero regulatory task force to enforce NZ integrity

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Catherine Abreu

8 months

It’s time we hold fossil fuel companies to account for knowingly fuelling the climate crisis, denying science, delaying policy, and deceiving the public. Great coverage from CBC’s @jill_english , honoured to be quoted w/ @CFigueres @algore @GavinNewsom .

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'A moment for honesty': More political leaders are directly linking fossil fuels to climate change...

The idea that fossil fuels are largely responsible for climate change made its way through New York City last week, as the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Climate Ambition Summit and NYC...

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1 year

Incredible to see country after country line and call for this COP to be the first in 30 years to finally have the guts to name the roots of the #climate crisis: coal, oil and gas. From major producers to major polluters, developed to developing countries.

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Those running at the front need to be those with the ability, and they need to provide financial and technological support to those running behind them.

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Catherine Abreu

5 months

Touched to be included as one of 4 portraits of changemakers at #COP28 by French paper @LesEchos 💚 Building community to make big change is my passion, and I love seeing my community on the verge of changing the UN climate talks forever!

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Catherine Abreu, l'activiste canadienne qui lutte pour une diplomatie de l'énergie

Série 1/4. Dans la perspective de la COP 28, qui se tiendra du 30 novembre au 12 décembre à Dubaï, « Les Echos » mettent en avant quatre leaders qui font avancer la cause environnementale. Cette...

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We finally get to hear from the Environmental Integrity Group! They've been somewhat quiet so far. Switzerland speaks on their behalf. We need to agree to global energy targets that include fossil phaseout and see how each country contributes according to their national capacity

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Catherine Abreu

5 years

And climate change?

@theJagmeetSingh

Jagmeet Singh

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5 years

Tomorrow I'm meeting with PM @JustinTrudeau . On the shortlist for me: 1. Work together to deliver universal pharmacare for all. 2. Stop taking Indigenous kids to court & drop the appeal of the ruling on First Nations child welfare. And more – looking forward to it. #cdnpoli

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Need to peak our emissions before 2024, and a rapid and deep reduction of emissions of 43% by this decade and 65% by 2035. In phasing out fossil fuels, we need a solid push on fossil fuel subsidies.

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Catherine Abreu

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Inspired by the courage of UN Secretary General @antonioguterres as he opens Climate Ambition Summit at #UNGA78 . No more giving credit to countries for setting targets they won’t meet. No more ignoring the cause of the crisis. Fossil fuel expansion must stop now. #endfossilfuels

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World leaders have departed and we’re into the the meat of the negotiations at #COP28 . A (very) quick update from me at the end of Day 3 on the push to finally get the UN climate talks to acknowledge the need to scale up renewables and efficiency, and phase out fossil fuels.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

@cjmcgowne Nope those are false talking points from those who benefit from the status quo. Here’s a good breakdown of some myths about renewable energy.

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Debunking myths about renewable energy

Although they are already the second largest source of electricity worldwide, there are still those who believe the myths about clean energy.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

To some people in my comments: The fossil fuel industry doesn’t need you to defend it. They want us disagreeing over the definition of words they use, rather than seeing the political ways those words are wielded. Let’s save our power for defending the people and places we love.

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Catherine Abreu

2 years

🤯😆Trying and totally failing to stay cool about the fact that I get to talk to @JaneFonda - an activist I’ve looked up to my whole life - next Friday with @Rlalen !!! Join us to learn more about @BeyondOilGas and how this Alliance is working to redefine climate leadership.

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Fire Drill Fridays

@FireDrillFriday

2 years

Join us on Jan 21 for the first @FireDrillFriday of 2022! Host @JaneFonda will kick off the year with @catabreu_ , Founder & Executive Director of Destination Zero and @Rlalen from @priceofoil to talk about the launch of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance during #COP26 .

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Catherine Abreu

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Let me just say it’s f*cked that AOSIS wasn’t in the room when #COP28 President gavelled the decision, and it was painful the way their objections after the fact were “noted”. These are the voices that have tirelessly pushed ambition into this process. We should have heard them.

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Tears flowed and a lengthy rousing ovation during final plenary just now for AOSIS Chair #AnneRasmussen , as she delivered an emotional response filled with unsparing observations about the final outcomes from #COP28UAE

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🔊 1/Good News: Canadian government just announced that any new or expanded thermal #coal project will be deemed to go against the public interest because of the severity of ecological impacts and the #climate imperative to get rid of coal. #cdnpoli

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