{"id":155403,"date":"2020-03-02T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=155403"},"modified":"2020-03-21T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:56:00","slug":"former-un-climate-chief-calls-for-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/former-un-climate-chief-calls-for-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UN Climate Chief Calls for Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.
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24 Feb 2020 – <\/em>In a book out tomorrow, the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to participate in non-violent political movements wherever possible,\u201d Christiana Figueres writes in \u201c<\/em>The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis<\/em><\/a>,\u201d which will be released tomorrow by Knopf.<\/p>\n

Figueres served as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010-16. She co-authored the book with her strategic advisor, Tom Rivett-Carnac. The two also support voting:<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge numbers of people must vote on climate change<\/em> as their number one priority,\u201d they write. \u201cAs we are in the midst of the most dire emergency, we must urgently demand that those who seek high office offer solutions commensurate with the scale of the problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But they note that electoral politics have failed to meet the challenge, largely because of systemic roadblocks including corporate lobbying and partisan opposition.<\/p>\n

They endorse Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg. They evoke legendary activists who effected change on the scale required by the climate crisis, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

\u201cCivil disobedience is not only a moral choice, it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics,\u201d they write, citing scientific resources<\/a> on the impact of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, systemic political shifts have required civil disobedience on a significant scale. Few have occurred without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read about all ten actions Figueres and Rivett-Carnac urge to mitigate climate change<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Figueres spoke out once before in support of Extinction Rebellion, Thunberg and civil disobedience, last April during ER\u2019s London strikes:<\/p>\n

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