The US president will hold a press conference, while the theme of the day is decarbonisation
As Cop27 waits for the arrival of Job Biden, who’s feeling mightily pleased with himself after the Democrats weren’t obliterated in the midterms as forecast, climate justice activists won’t be congratulating the US president, rather calling him out for climate failures.
“President Biden must declare a climate emergency. People are sick, they are dying because profits are valued more than our lives,” said Sharon Lavigne, the 2021 Goldman prize winner from Louisiana who led a successful grassroots campaign to stop the construction of a toxic plastics plant in America’s ‘Cancer Alley’. “We put him in office. He needs to listen to frontline leaders. President Biden please meet with me today at Cop27; listen to us.”