Exploring the inconvenience of COP

This week saw the conclusion of COP29 - the 29th annual UN Conference of Parties summit on climate change. The fact that we're now on our 29th conference and global emissions are still rising is perhaps an indication that this is not working. This year in particular saw a lot of people from inside the conference speaking out about its flaws.

In this episode Holly and Rachel explore some of the inconvenient truths about the business as usual story of 'leaders saving the world', discussing the flaws of this current system of climate negotiations and reflect on why and how this current model of COP just doesn't work. We turn attention and discussions onto the role of 'citizening' as an active verb, and reflect on how more and more people are no longer waiting for 'them' to fix things, but are instead quietly and loudly just getting on with 'us' changing the world.

In this episode we reference the following:

• The history of climate negotiations in 83 seconds (video)
• COP26 Tuvalu address (video)
• Open letter from inside COP 29 (letter)
• Climate Majority Project (citizens movement)
• Three stories of our time - Joanna Macy (website)
• Alok Sharma COP26 (video)
• Jon Alexander - Citizens (website /book)
• Rebecca Solnit research (article)
• The Hypocrite (short film)
• Transforming Leadership Course (online course)
• Re-Action Collective: Citizen Friday (movement)
• How to Citizen (Podcast)

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