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September 16, 2024

350.org reacts to deadly flooding in Europe

Europe — People and communities across Central and Eastern Europe are suffering from the ongoing extreme rainfall and flooding caused by Storm Boris. Widespread impacts include:

  • Five people killed and several unaccounted for due to flooding in Romania and the Czech Republic.
  • One person drowned in Poland and another, a firefighter, died during flood rescue in Austria.
  • Poland’s Prime Minister has declared a state of natural disaster.
  • The province surrounding Vienna, Austria is declared a ‘disaster area’ due to the ‘unprecedented extreme situation’.

This unnatural disaster is hitting Europeans as extreme climate impacts are devastating other regions around the world that include: flooding in west and central Africa where more than 1000 people have died and many more had their homes destroyed; Typhoon Yagi is wreaking havoc in Asia with hundreds reported killed and Vietnam alone reporting damages of $1.6 billion; wildfires continuing to sweep across Brazil and the Amazon rainforest, as the region endures a record heatwave.

Nicolò Wojewoda, European Regional Director at 350.org said:

“This is yet another devastating wake up call for world leaders and power brokers to take urgent and decisive action to tackle the climate crisis. We are witnessing ordinary people paying with their lives, right now, as decision-makers delay and obstruct climate action. How many more deadly disasters do they need to see in order to take necessary concrete steps to set policy and implement measures that end the suffering we are witnessing today?

The people and communities suffering right now have been failed time and time again by ineffective leadership and a broken system that is rigged against them. This can not and will not continue – because we won’t let it.

Over the coming weeks the most powerful politicians and decision-makers will be gathering at a series of summits, conferences and negotiations to talk climate. We will be holding up this latest swathe of tragic and preventable disasters, as a measure to judge their actions not their words. And we will be organising to increase the pressure on them, to show them that half-measures and delaying tactics will not be enough to silence the growing call for climate justice”

As climate impacts hit and world leaders prepare for the UN climate negotiations (COP29), the G20 Summit and a round of important national budgets in countries like France, Germany and the UK, 350.org expresses the following measures for urgent implementation:

  • A global agreement on a wealth tax and the implementation of national wealth taxes in countries like France, Germany and the UK – to raise billions in additional revenue for financing domestic and international climate solutions.
  • Increased and permanent windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies.
  • At COP29, we need all countries, especially wealthy ones benefiting from the climate crisis, to honour their pledges. We must see commitments to redirect trillions from fossil fuels to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, with projects that benefit communities everywhere.

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Contacts

Global

Sarah Wilbore 
Global Communications Director
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Canada

Kim Bryan
Associate Director, Media & Communications
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Wales, United Kingdom

Pascale Hunt
Senior Global Communications Specialist
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+ 62 8123 666 1189
Australia / Indonesia

Mariana Abdalla
Senior Global Communications Specialist
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Brazil

Africa

Anna Amar
Africa Francophone Communications Coordinator
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Senegal

Mamadou Thiam
Africa Digital & Communications Specialist
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Senegal

Tumi Masipa
South Africa Digital & Communications Specialist
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South Africa

Australia

Lucy Manne
CEO 350.org Australia
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+61 417 387 516
Australia

Europe

Mark Raven
Europe Communications Manager
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+447841474125
England, United Kingdom

Latin America

Peri Días
Latin America Communications Manager
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+351 913 201 040
Portugal

Carolina Avila
Latin America Digital Communications Specialist
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Argentina

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Melanie Smith
U.S. Communications Specialist
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New York, USA

Canada

Chris Gusen
Canada Senior Digital & Communications Specialist
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Canada

Pacific

Drue Slatter
Pacific Communications Manager
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Japan

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