To: Regional Councils, Minister of Energy and Resources Megan Woods, Minister for Environment David Parker, Minister for Climate Change James Shaw

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Hon Dr Megan Woods

Minister of Energy and Resources

September 23, 2019

Dr Woods

This letter is being written to urge you to not attend the New Zealand Petroleum Conference. The oil and gas industry have done all in their power to delay meaningful action to address the climate crisis – they have consistently put their profits above people and the planet.

Jacinda Ardern got elected prime minister of New Zealand after calling climate change her generation’s “nuclear free moment”. The only meeting the Minister should be having with the oil and gas industry is to discuss a just transition away from fossil fuels.

We feel that a governmental presence at this conference condones and encourages a reckless and irresponsible dependency on the petroleum sector. The government is not on track to meet its obligations and contribute fairly to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris Agreement commitments necessary to stay well below 2 degrees – and we know we have a narrow window to make the cuts needed.

Ardern shaped her climate change views on New Zealand’s proud stance as being nuclear free, a stance that did not come easily nor without condemnation and the threat of alienation, but David Lange did not talk about how dangerous nuclear weapons are and then attend a conference aboard a nuclear warship.

We recognise that the systematic changes required to meet our Paris obligations may generate an extraordinary sense of destabilisation in those who worry at the imminent prospect of renewable energy breaking out, but the character of the argument that New Zealand’s future prosperity depends on a minerals and petroleum sector is regrettable. Very simply, there is no moral case for continued exploration for fossil fuels. The undeniable scientific and economic facts pervert the suitability of holding a conference to “celebrate” an industry that threatens the well-being of all living things.

A report to Treasury in 2018 estimated that climate change-attributable extreme rainfall-related floods cost New Zealand around $120M and climate change-attributable economic losses associated with droughts cost New Zealand around $720M over a ten year period. These costs appear conservative in comparison to a May 2017 Ministry for the Environment report that estimated the economic cost of the 2012-13 drought alone to be $1.5 billion.

The financial cost of significant weather events in New Zealand the year that Jacinda Ardern called climate change our nuclear free moment was $240 million. It was so high that 2017 was named the most expensive year for weather since records began, and in 2018 Westpac advised that early action on climate change would save the country $30 billion by 2050.

So, the hosting, holding and attending of this exclusive, premier event exposes the greatest of all perversions: the belief that business-as-usual is necessary – when in fact, it is not. The key discussions need to be about stopping all extensions to current permits, timing the end of all exploration on- and off-shore and eliminating all extraction of fossil fuels as part of a just transition.

“Celebrating” an industry charged with accelerating climate breakdown subverts the best of intentions. The Prime Minister has said that ‘fossil fuels are not part of New Zealand’s future’. If the fossil fuel industry wishes to be a part of our future, they have the ability to fund and accelerate investment into alternative clean energy sources and support the labour force to retrain and begin new work. The voices of the communities and workers facing significant change as a result of ending our reliance on fossil fuel extraction should have been included as an important part of this conference.

Too often preparations are being made for survivable climate collapse with words like mitigation and adaptation. But what if you ignore those and wholeheartedly embrace the unthinkable and imagine the devastation which could result from the collapse of a stable climate.

Dr Woods, you have stated that you firmly believe that economic growth need not be at the expense of the environment, but do you equally believe that economic growth cannot occur if the climate collapses? Your statement infers an understanding that the environment does suffer from the relentless pursuit of economic growth, but you say that it doesn’t have to. We believe that a vibrant, healthy economy can only exist within a vibrant, healthy environment on a vibrant, healthy planet. The Petroleum Conference is a holdover from a previous era. It is time to move on. The conference should be disbanded.

The normality and regularity with which we use petroleum-based products makes it difficult to read all the signs, but essentially the New Zealand Petroleum Conference is a demonstration of how the fossil fuel industry has assumed a moral life of its own.

We implore the Minister of Energy and Resources and the New Zealand government to respectfully withdraw from its participation in and support of the New Zealand Petroleum Conference.

With awareness and conviction

Zella Downing – XR Queenstown Lakes

Anna Simmonds – XR Queenstown Lakes

Rosemary Penwarden – Oil Free Otago

Joanna Santa Barbara – Our Climate Declaration

Cindy Baxter – Coal Action Network Aotearoa

Rob Taylor – Auckland Coal Action

Melanie Vautier – Climate Safe Travel Institute

James Barber and Michelle Ducat – Oil Free Wellington

Catherine Cheung and Urs Signer – Climate Justice Taranaki

Torfrida Wainwright – 350 Christchurch

Environmental Justice Ōtepoti

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The campaign to end the mining and burning of fossil fuels in Aotearoa has had a major win with the Government’s announcement of an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration. But that still leaves plenty of existing permits – and so far, despite some encouraging words early in their term, the Government has done nothing concrete to prevent new and expanded coal mines.

That’s why we’re really encouraged that our friends in 350 Aotearoa have announced two major events with Bill McKibben in early May – plus livestreams for those who can’t attend in person. Below is the announcement from 350 Aotearoa, but first – if you want to set up a livestream event in your community, here’s how to make a start:

Livestreaming

The Auckland event will be livestreamed starting at 7pm on Monday 7 May. You can follow this at home via the Auckland Facebook event,

Check out 350 Aotearoa’s Facebook page for updates on livestreaming venues.

350 Aotearoa Fossil Free Acceleration Tour Announcement

Tena koutou,

It’s a great pleasure, on such a landmark day for us in the climate movement, to announce the Fossil Free Acceleration Tour with Bill Mckibben, this coming May.

350 Aotearoa sees the government’s announcement to end offshore oil exploration as a massive win and a motivating catalyst for more work, and more change to come. 350 is committed to a fast and just transition to a world powered by 100% renewable energy for all.

At such a pivotal and exciting time in the climate movement, we are excited to welcome Bill McKibben to Aotearoa, and strengthen relationships with other progressive movements and organisations that share in this vision too.

This tour will be a huge opportunity to accelerate and promote all the amazing work that has gone into the fossil free movement so far. I warmly invite you to join us at our events and kindly ask that you spread this announcement through your networks.

Ever since the release of his first book ‘The End of Nature’ 25 years ago, Bill McKibben has become one of the world’s most notable commentators on climate change. Since co-founding 350.org, he has turned to grassroots activism, participating in the Fossil Free campaign, a powerful movement of citizens which demands:

1. A fast + just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.

2. No new fossil fuel projects anywhere.

3. Not a penny more for dirty energy

In January 2018, he was instrumental in New York City’s motion to sue five major energy companies for damages from climate change, and their decision to divest US$5billion from fossil fuel projects. Following this success, Bill McKibben is now making his way to Aotearoa on his global Fossil Free Acceleration Tour.

We encourage you to come see Bill McKibben speak alongside local leaders in the climate movement on the following dates:

Wellington, Sunday 6th May, Embassy Cinema at 7pm. Tickets available here.

Auckland, Monday 7th May, Town Hall Concert Chamber at 7pm. Tickets available here.

Keep updated through our Facebook events:

Wellington: https://www.facebook.com/events/199374854004160/

Auckland: https://www.facebook.com/events/127618811423227/

350 Aotearoa understand that we have a responsibility for ensuring a safe, dignified, and welcoming environment for everyone. If you have questions regarding accessibility, or any other queries regarding the Fossil Free Acceleration Tour please get in contact.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Nāku nā,

Claudia Palmer
Tour Manager
350 Aotearoa

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Good on Jacinda Ardern and the current New Zealand government for their courage in announcing an end to offshore oil exploration, and issuing no new onshore permits outside of Taranaki.  This vital first step re-directs our focus away from fossil fuels toward an industry sustained by renewable energy.  Transitions do have to start somewhere, and at the least, this is a start.  James Shaw is correct when he states that there is an “enormous opportunity for the creation of new jobs and new technologies that our dependence on fossil fuels has held back for too long.”

And shame on the National Party for responding to this announcement with disdainful terms like ‘economic vandalism’.  Economic vandalism is the refusal—inability—to see the dire economic repercussions of full blown climate chaos.  Regional and national governments are regularly confronted by billions of dollars in cost with every drought, flood and cyclone that devastates a community.  Ignoring the increasing frequency and intensity of these storms is a form of negligence that future generations will be loath to forgive.

Vandalism is deliberate, mischievous or malicious.  Ardern’s announcement is deliberate, cautious and commensurate.  She is setting a course.  Many in the climate movement have responded that the course hasn’t been adjusted enough to make an impact, while the fossil fuel industry warns that driving production overseas will harm the environment; they clearly see the greenhouse gas over New Zealand as somehow more green and less harmful that the greenhouse gases over the rest of the planet.

Discussions, thoughts, about climate chaos can either lure despondency or arouse fury.  It is an issue of such importance that the life of the planet is literally balanced in the outcome.  It’s like we’re in a Bruce Willis movie where all the explosions are played by extreme weather events, and the ultimate good-guy hero that saves the day is you and me – so CANA would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Oil Free Wellington for their successful, inspired and indeed heroic hosting of the Rally for Climate Justice.

This was Rosemary’s fifth Oil Summit blockade, and she felt it was the most hopeful because of the diverse cross section of society who gathered and stood together against continuing a fossil fuel addiction that will literally cost us the earth.  The presence of the Supergrans gave depth and wisdom to the action, but the mix of high school kids, iwi, cyclists, professionals, church groups and activists from all over Aotearoa established this blockade as a unified movement.  It wasn’t just a protest.

“Five years ago, outside the Westpac Stadium, I felt powerless alongside the other protestors, watching the delegates enter the conference, pomposity intact. This year I saw worried-looking delegates hustled through fire exit doors and underground car park entrances guarded by angry police. The diversity affected them too.”  —Rosemary 

Oil Free Wellington ensured that those involved in the Rally understood what is at stake, so they opened and freely shared a vault of wisdom on the Sunday prior to the Blockade.  Scientists spoke factually.  Lawyers spoke of the law.  Tangata whenua spoke of tradition and history.  And the people of Taranaki spoke of their lost taonga, the loss of their food basket and their poisoned land.

“I got a heart-felt connection to the Taranaki people who’ve been fighting oil & fracking for years.  I gained a stronger sense of connection with the many people around Aotearoa.” 

—Torfrida

Oil Free Wellington is one part of the consistent pressure a determined climate movement has been put on the Petroleum Conference since it started convening in New Zealand.  This year, this pressure forced conference organizers into secrecy about the venue and the start date; the conference was delayed a full day.

The annual attendance by climate groups at these oil and gas conferences also forced a huge police presence.  Delegates got up 2 hours early to try to get inside the venue before the blockade was formed, but those working to stave off full-blown climate disruption got up even earlier and were in place when those delegates arrived, so the start of the conference was delayed further.  The determination and conviction of those forming the blockade led to the police escorting and protecting the food being delivered for lunch, which was a bizarre thing to watch.

“I was proud to be one of a group of over 70s who held the line in front of the main doors which were never breached. I was proud that we established a conversation with the police who stepped back from their aggression and shared the odd joke. I was very disappointed to hear later of the violence they showed our people on the other side of the building.”  —Jeanette

Petroleum Conference proceedings were disrupted even further with deafening noise.  The TSB Arena is not much more than a long metal shed, and we all know what a racket can be made by pounding on sheets of aluminium.

“The ‘music’ from the ‘band’ was ingenious!  Rubbish bin lids slamming.  Umbrellas carrying the rhythm of a drum beat.  An orchestra of improvised noise makers.  The oil and gas companies must have got the message that they are not welcome here.”  —Jenny

Jacinda Ardern had intimated that she would lead a government that says “No” to new oil and gas exploration, but her announcement does little to address the possible decades of production if oil were to be found on an existing permit or the continued issuance of on-shore permits.  When the government says, “It’s okay to explore and extract,” the voices of those who know better must be heard loud and clear.  That’s why blockades and actions like the one hosted by Oil Free Wellington are so important.

“There was one point in the blockade where I just stepped outside myself and watched.  The police were standing in a line with their arms outstretched.  All of them were wearing black gloves.  I could hear bagpipes and bicycle bells.  A bunch of yellow-caped grannies and grampies came round the corner carrying placards with photos of their grandchildren.  It was raining, and a guy gave me a piece of chalk so that I could write a message about why I was there.”  —Zella

This government has drawn a line in the sand and set our country on the path to a clean energy, low carbon future.  It clearly hasn’t gone far enough to address the oncoming destruction of full-scale climate disruption, but it is a start.

“This is what change looks like. It’s messy, and it’s never as complete or as urgent as it needs to be, and vested interests who’ve spent centuries colonising and destroying the planet for profit don’t give up easily or quickly. But it’s a step in the right direction, made possible by relentless pressure. Now we have to step up the pressure even further on all fossil fuels.”  — Tim

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At the bottom of this post, there’s news of a Greens/Oil Free Otautahi meeting in Christchurch on the issue.

Stop the Petroleum Summit – call to action: Wednesday 18 September

Next month on the 18th and 19th September the Petroleum Summit is set to take place in Wellington.

Our oceans are being sold off, seismic surveying is set to take place in the Pegasus Basin and exploratory drilling in the Great South Basin and off Taranaki within months, onshore oil and gas production including fracking is expanding and our right to protest and privacy is being removed.

This Petroleum summit comes at a time when our climate, livelihoods and environment are being threatened like never before.

With representatives from the oil and gas industry and Government coming together for two days with the purpose of the expansion of this destructive and unsustainable industry, now is the time to act. Now is the time for us rise up and voice a collective NO to fossil fuel extraction agenda, and YES to a sustainable and equitable future.

Therefore, we are calling for action and solidarity from our allies around Aotearoa to join us in Wellington to stop this summit from it’s business as usual.

With the industry behind this summit threatening our future, and with summit sponsors such as war-mongering corporate giant Halliburton, we hope that groups and allies in peace and social justice movements will also join in this action.

We will meet on Wednesday 18th at 7.15am sharp outside the Railway Station (next to the Gandhi statue) and march to the Petroleum summit at Westpac Stadium. We will voice our opposition powerfully, creatively,and peacefully. We know it’s early, but we’ll have coffee on hand. Please be on time so we can march together.

Bring banners, noisemakers, whistles, pots, pans, costumes, musical instruments, friends, whanau and anything else to help make this event lively and festive.

If you are travelling from out of Wellington and need a place to stay, email the address below and we can help out. We also hope to have a chance to share some kai, stories, plans and korero on the evening of the 18th. Venue TBC

The oil and gas industry think they own Aotearoa and can carry out their national conference of polluters without a hitch. Lets show them they’re wrong.

For info or questions please email oilfreewellington@gmail.com

With aroha and solidarity
The Oil Free Wellington Crew

Christchurch Public Meeting, Friday 20 September: Green Party and Oil Free Otautahi

A callout from Gareth Hughes MP:

The National Government is rolling out the red carpet to oil companies who can now put in bids for the right to do risky exploratory deep sea drilling off New Zealand’s coastline.

We saw the economic and environmental damage that can be done with the Rena disaster and that’s small in comparison to the potential damage of a deep sea oil spill. We need to take this chance while the door is open to show the Government that New Zealanders don’t want to put our precious coasts at risk of catastrophic oil spills. We need to lay out a better option.

To learn more about the drilling and what you can do to help stop it, please join me and special guest speaker Siana Fitzjohn (Oil Free Otautahi) for a public meeting in Christchurch.

When: 7pm, Friday 20th September
Where: Knox Church, 28 Bealey Ave, Christchurch (Click for map)

If you can make it to the meeting, please RSVP.

If you can’t make it but want to be kept up to date about the issue, click here to join the Kiwi Bid.

Thanks, hope to see you there!

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Yep, we made it to The Guardian Environment’s front page – for all the wrong reasons.

Our charming Prime Minister – and Minister of Tourism – has excelled himself with his latest video promoting drilling, fracking and the general digging up of our beautiful country and its offshore marine environment. The video was released last week.

While we could go on – and on – The Guardian’s summed it for us – . Blogger Graham Readfearn points out the irony of the moves by our Government to exploit what Key calls “our natural resources” – an irony that hasn’t escaped many of us here in NZ.

Some of the comments on the blog are telling:

Clearly tourism in NZ exists outside of the Lord of the Rings phenomenon. It is, after all, a fantastic country to visit.
However, how long will the tourism last if it ruins its environment through mineral extraction? And how long do you think those minerals will last? What then?

and

I really can’t understand why all these right wing politicians can only think of environmentally destructive and socially divisive ways of providing employment and earning money when their are so many environmentally constructive and socially enhancing alternatives.

To those who have visited our shores, the prospect of digging up NZ to sell it off to the highest international corporate bidder is clearly as bizarre a concept as it is to us.

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Cow in dry weather, Wairarapa. Photo Dave Allen, NIWA

As I flew up the country from Wellington to Auckland this week, on yet another beautiful day, I was struck by the colour of our country.

Brown. Burned to a crisp.  The occasional smattering of green forest, but an island suffering from its  worst drought in 70 years, as I’d heard climate scientist Jim Salinger saying on the radio that morning.

Next I’m listening to Bill English saying farmers can’t expect get the same level of support in future droughts, if they continue to happen with more frequency, as NIWA tells us they will.

Meanwhile John Key is in Brazil pleading with oil giant Petrobras to come back, and an industry-written report tells us we should drill all over the East Coast.

It’s obviously bad. The Sunday Star Times tells us:

“experts warn it could spell the end for farming as we know it and may cost the country billions of dollars in drought relief each year before practices are adjusted.”

It’s taken quite some time for the words “climate change” to enter the national conversation about this drought.  I spoke with NIWA’s Brett Mullan last week and he had some very interesting points to make on the massive and very unusual highs that have been sitting over the country since early February. He’d make a great interview, I thought, but he said no media had called him to even ask.

Climatologist Dr James Renwick wrote an excellent article in The Press, but it’s well away from those in the major drought area.

Our agriculture-based economy is going to feel this pinch more than most in the decades to come.  Indeed the Government is already signalling it may cause a return to recession. What worries me is that our agriculture is increasingly turning to intensive, water-hungry dairy farming, at a time when water scarcity is expected to rise.

In 1981 there were 2.92 million dairy cows wandering our land.  By 2010 this had grown to nearly six million.

In the last few weeks we’ve seen farmer after dairy farmer on the news, having to dry off their herd early, buy in feed and sell cows off to the works as they can’t sustain them.

There are so many ironies in this story that it’s difficult to know where to start.

Federated Farmers and Fonterra fought tooth and nail to keep agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme.  You know, that thing that was supposed to be New Zealand’s response to climate change.  Except it doesn’t, as our ETS is so weak it’s pretty much dead in the water.

The ETS would, apparently, have been too costly for farmers.  Because after all they have to deal with expensive things like – erm – dealing with drought.  Of which there will be more, caused by – erm – climate change.

Some of the extra feed they’re buying is palm kernel, palm kernel that comes from Indonesian plantations on land that used to house peatlands and old growth forest, activities that add a massive chunk of carbon to our atmosphere.

So we don’t act on climate change, and we are now only OECD country to have no specific 2020 target to cut emissions.  And our government is at the forefront of efforts to undermine progress at international climate talks.

We’ve turned our backs on Kyoto, and we’re showing no signs of treating the need for a global climate agreement with the urgency the science is telling us it deserves, instead treating it like a set of trade talks.

This is our worst drought in 70 years, but 2007/8 was almost as bad.  Taking action to curb emissions, the government has argued, would cost the country, but did they factor in the cost of this drought, at $1 billion and ballooning, and the last drought that cost $2.8 billion?

Meanwhile our dairy giant, Fonterra, wants to open a coal mine to operate its milk powder factories.   Coal, that stuff that causes climate change.

But we’re not allowed to argue climate change when coal extraction is being considered.  Heaven forbid. Let’s hope the Supreme Court will listen to the West Coast Environment Network’s arguments this week as they battle Bathurst and Solid Energy in their bid to get the law changed.

Of course I have sympathy for farmers at this terrible time. And of course I don’t blame all farmers for the state of the Government’s climate policy.

We’re all in this climate change business together.  From my own fast-emptying water tanks to the farmers (and associated industries) suffering across the country, we need to turn to a new way of thinking, a new way of operating in this climate-changing world.

If I were a farmer I’d be screaming at the government to take leadership on all counts.  Maps like this aren’t pretty.

Our Government, for the sake of our farmers and all of our futures, needs to wake up, dump its short-term, fossil fuel-based thinking that holds up international action, and, indeed our economy.

Instead of his myopic focus on coal mining, fracking, mining, offshore oil drilling – and indeed, carbon-intensive dairying, instead of kowtowing to the likes of Petrobras,  John Key could be leading our country towards real prosperity.

As a recent Greenpeace report has pointed out, we could be embracing a smart, clean, 21st century economy based on 100% renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable transport.

All we need is some leadership.

Otherwise we’ll  all have to get used to this “new normal”.

Update:  You couldn’t make this stuff up:  Finance Minister Bill English questions his own scientists’ models on drought, saying in Parliament: “I recall similar predictions made by similar scientific bodies in Australia just 4 or 5 years ago and it has not stopped raining since.”

He missed the fact that Australia has just experienced its hottest summer in recorded history and its scientists say it’s down to climate change. Nice to have a Government so well-informed about the science.

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Rob McCreath, our main guest speaker at the 2013 Keep the Coal in the Hole Summer Festival, has kindly agreed to speak in Dunedin on his way south – Wed 16 January 7pm at English Language Matters, Level 2 Evan Parry House, 43 Princes St. 

We’re looking forward to hearing how Rob and Friends of Felton stopped the coal mine and chemical plant in their area. And we’re hoping we can apply what he has learned to our own situation – how best to continue supporting our Southland neighbours, as well as protecting our own coastline and Otago region from more mining.

Tea, coffee and nibbles available. Hope you can make it. Here’s the Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/445175345537470/

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Join a coalition of local groups at a protest outside the NZ Petroleum summit 2012, and say “Ka Nui, Enough!” to the oil and gas industry.
Industries are literally counting down to this event, where the Energy Minister will speak on the government’s planned expansion of oil and gas extraction in New Zealand.

At a time when we should be transitioning towards clean energy and a sustainable and more equitable society, this government continues to push its “mine it, drill it” vision for Aotearoa New Zealand. This government is supporting an oil and gas industry which pollutes communities and our rural environment while bullying those who resist; all for the profit of a tiny minority.

With many in local communities across Aotearoa locking their gates to get oil and gas out of their back yards, it’s Wellington’s turn to show our support for the communities affected by the expansion of the oil and gas industries in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sustainable future not climate chaos!

Clean waters not toxic oil spills!

5pm, Wednesday 19th September
Outside the Amora Hotel, Wakefield St, Wellington.
Please bring banners, placards, and noisemakers if you wish.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/257320647720952/

Family friendly. Join us afterwards for a koha dinner and discussion.

The poster is below – if you are able to distribute these to friends/family/workmates/classmates or in local shops or libraries, that would be fantastic.

If you can’t make the event itself, but are willing to make a banner / placard at home, please email frances.mountier@gmail.com. Please see the text above for ideas for wording.

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So we are holding the Ka Nui! Enough! Conference at the same time to discuss the huge negative impacts mining has on our economies, communities, and environment and what we are going to do about it. And we hope you’ll be able to attend.

Ka Nui! Enough!

Website: http://kanuiconference.wordpress.com/

Location: Rotorua

Dates: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th August

Speakers: Dayle Takitimu (Te Whanau-a-Apanui) Drew Hutton
(Lock the Gate Alliance Australia), Dr Susan Krumdieck (Canterbury
University) and more . . .

Cost: $25 for the weekend or koha on the day.

Registration: to register email your name and contact number to kanuiconference@gmail.com

Kaupapa

The extractive industries, including fracking, mining & oil drilling, have huge negative impacts on our economies,communities & environment.

We must move past this in a way that is just for all. Join us to learn more and strategise together.

Please forward this invite widely. And please register asap to support those communities on the frontlines, to learn, to share, and to strategise.

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