Glasgow Agreement

It is accepted by the vast majority of scientists that the greenhouse effect which warms the Earth is increased by the emission of vast amounts of greenhouse gases by human activities.[4]

In a November 2019 statement published in an issue of BioScience, a group of over 11,000 scientists argued that describing global warming as a climate emergency or climate crisis was appropriate.[5] The scientists stated that an "immense increase of scale in endeavor" is needed to conserve the biosphere, but noted "profoundly troubling signs" including sustained increases in livestock populations, meat production, tree cover loss, fossil fuel consumption, air transport, and CO₂ emissions—concurrent with upward trends in climate impacts such as rising temperatures, global ice melt, and extreme weather.[6]

Also in November 2019, an article published in Nature concluded that evidence from climate tipping points alone suggests that "we are in a state of planetary emergency". The Nature article referenced recent IPCC Special Reports (2018, 2019) suggesting individual tipping points could be exceeded with as little as 1—2  °C of global average warming (current warming is ~1 °C), with a global cascade of tipping points possible with greater warming.[7]

By taking into account the above mentioned climate urgency and the global institutional response which has not prevented the global rise of greenhouse gas emissions,[8] the platform claims the most effective strategy to prevent climate breakdown to be that of large-scale direct action against the infrastructures responsible for said emissions.[9]

Based on an inventory which will take into consideration the specific political conditions of each territory, their historical responsibilities, and infrastructures/sectors/companies, the organisations of the Glasgow Agreement that are located in a given territory claim they will develop priorities for emission cuts through a list of infrastructures to be shut down through different tactical tools (mainly those focused on direct action), such as civil disobedience, and politico-economic non-cooperation.

This climate agenda based on territorial inventories and climate justice demands aims to keep the Earth below 1.5 °C global warming by 2100 by reaching the emission cuts needed for that effect.[10]