Have you noticed a woman with a five-meter train strolling around COP28 wearing a fiery robe?
That’s Carmen Capriles, a Bolivian climate activist and member of Artivist Network, an organization of activists that use art to advocate for climate justice. She’s wearing the dress that shows a forest in flames.
According to Carpiles, the goal is to get the negotiators, delegates, and observers at the present UN Climate Summit to take immediate, decisive action to protect the environment.
News Times visited the UN-controlled COP28’s Blue Zone on Friday, where they spoke with her and her organization. Although there were no banners, posters, or chanting, the message was nonetheless understood by bystanders.
Several organizations, including Artivist Network, are peacefully gathering at COP28 to highlight concerns about human rights, food security, equitable distribution of the climate fund, protection of Indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands, and other sectoral issues in addition to climate issues.
A number of kid couples were earlier visibly displayed on the ground by imaginative climate activists as a silent protest with the powerful message, “No climate justice without human rights.”
The fact that over 6,000 of the over 15,000 people who perished in Gaza as a result of ongoing Israeli airstrikes is one of the problems that climate activists have been bringing up at the UN Climate Summit.
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