Environment
RESPONDING to the decision at COP29 to fast-track Article 6 of the Paris Agreement which sets out the principles for carbon markets, World Animal Protection’s Head of External Engagement, Kelly Dent, said:
“Parties meeting at COP 29 in Baku have taken a dangerous step forward on critical article 6 carbon markets, undermining the decision-making process and raising issues of transparency. It could mean human rights abuses, animal suffering and irreversible environmental damage will continue.
“This permits agribusiness to continue to pollute and they will not be compelled to reduce their emissions. These false solutions and the private finance generated, will move us further away from an equitable, humane and sustainable food system that places animals, people and their communities at its heart”.
World Animal Protection is the global voice for animal welfare, with more than 70 years’ experience campaigning for a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.
Our work to protect animals will play a vital role in solving the climate emergency, the public health crisis, and the devastation of natural habitats.
We have offices in 12 countries and work across 47 countries. We collaborate with local communities, the private sector, civil society, and governments to change animals’ lives for the better. Our goal is to change the way the world works to end animal cruelty and suffering for both wild and farmed animals. Through our global food system strategy, we will end factory farming and create a humane and sustainable food system that puts animals first. By transforming the broken systems that fuel exploitation and commodification, we will give wild animals the right to a wildlife.
Together, we will change the way the world works and end animal cruelty and suffering. Forever.
A.I
Nov. 13, 2024
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