A Green Wave to hit Brum – Cardboard Carnival Leads way to Belem & COP 30

On 15th November we’re calling on everyone to wear green and join us in our Cardboard Carnival!

We’re asking everyone to wear green for a Cardboard Carnival taking place in Birmingham and online from 10am to 5pm starting at the Edge, Cheapside, ending at St.Phillips Cathedral, Pigeon Square.  We call for global change and active solidarity with young people and communities on the frontlines of marginalization worldwide.

Event coordinator, Marcus Belben from Brum Climate Justice Coalition, Friction Arts and Woodcraft Folk says:

‘A peaceful, fairer, and sustainable future is only possible if we work together and hold our governments and businesses accountable.’

The people who bear the heaviest burden, from climate crisis displacement to economic exploitation, are not actively involved in decision making.  Policies and actions from COP30 must be fully accountable to young people and marginalized communities. Cardboard Carnival raises these issues through the creativity and leadership of young activists in Birmingham who support of globally marginalized and young people across the world who will be most affected by the climate crisis.  

In the morning there will be banner making with Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, Shadow Puppetry with Woodcraft Folk, Drums and chanting with XR Beat & Rhythms and Carnival creations with Friction’s Art Club. 

At 1pm our live linkup will reach across the world.   We plan to talk to Leon Sealey-Huggins from ‘War on Want’, who will be attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Leon spoke at last year’s conference, where he said:

‘These’s no acknowledgement from the vision of just transition that the Global North presents, of historical responsibility, of climate debt, of common but differentiated responsibility. So for us just transition isn’t just transition, it’s just and ecological transition.  There’s no way of dealing with the transition away from fossil fuels without also tackling the interconnected issues of vast inequality both intergenerational and domestic, the biodiversity crisis and the rigged global economic system which is the inheritance of years and centuries of colonialism and imperialism.’