Events Calendar

Montreal
Great March for Life
Saturday, December 10 -- 1:00-5:00 pm
Sir George-Étienne Cartier Monument, Mount Royal Park
Organized by COP15 Collective

Sixty-seven civil society organizations in Quebec have set up the COP15 Collective which is organizing a "Great March for Life" event on December 10. The COP15 Collective brings together organizations from the environmental and conservation sectors, international development, youth, Indigenous organizations, unions, financial organizations, philanthropic foundations and research centers. It describes COP15 as a turning point for the preservation of life. The Collective is already mobilized to take action on the unprecedented loss of biodiversity in Quebec and around the world.

Other demonstrations directed at COP15 on December 7 and 9 say it has the cynical aim of greenwashing the activities of those who benefit from the destruction of biodiversity: "In the face of the climate crisis, we need a system change that COP15 cannot provide. Indeed, [COP15], follows closely on the heels of the UN's decade of mobilization on biodiversity. Faithful to their greenwashing habits, states and ecocidal companies will take advantage of this summit to finance the destruction of biodiversity by shaking hands happily," organizers say.

"We cannot accept this hypocrisy while the consequences are felt in the poorest countries and the most marginalized populations: the solution lies in action and popular resistance. This is a call to all individuals and groups who wish to join a large demonstration for biodiversity and against COP15.

"COP15 risks being one of the last summits in Montreal: let's mobilize against this 15th masquerade, against the race for profit and against rotten reforms!," organizers say.

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This article was published in

Volume 52 Number 54 - December 5, 2022

Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520542.HTM

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