COP27 is here! Jill and Edgar check in after the first day of COP27  to discuss
how scientists are increasingly aligning with the urgency and concerns of communities of color and others on the frontlines, how scarcity is manufactured by the wealthy and powerful to keep the rest of us fighting over scraps, and how there are a massive number of organizations at the COP pushing for market-based mechanisms to deal with climate change instead of advocating what we really need.

Edgar also reports on how protest actions are constricted and monitored and how folks at the COP who are connected to social movements are shunted off to spaces where they can't be easily seen, in contrast to the visibility and centering of large nonprofits, like the Gates Foundation, that are collaborating with governments and corporations peddling false solutions.

Recorded on November 7, 2022. Crash #COP27 is a special season of On the Frontlines.

Check out:

• Where does the Gates Foundation’s agriculture spending really go? (November 4, 2022, Community Alliance for Global Justice)
• Biden Administration Statement on the Opening of COP27 (referenced in the podcast)

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