The truth is coming out of the mouths of 11-29 year olds. Rich countries don’t pay enough for climatic damage they have caused, by emitting a maximum of greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of the industrial era. Climate justice
and North-South inequalities dominate the Mock Cop treaty26 (link here), the very official climate conference parallel and virtual world youth, signed yesterday by 330 young delegates from 140 countries.
World leaders have been dragging their feet since 2013 on a critical mechanism called loss and damage
. This is specific funding for the most vulnerable countries, particularly the islands, which are hit hard by climate change. It is in the Paris Climate Agreement, which will be five years old on December 12, and the UN tries to enforce it at every annual summit, to little or no avail.
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Now this fall storms hit the Philippines and Central America again, leaving thousands displaced and over 200 dead; droughts in southern Africa have left 9.6 million people hungry
, lists a letter from the youth activists addressed to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, host of the COP26, in Glasgow, in November 2021.
Also read. At Cop25, Uili Lousi, the artist from Tonga, wants to save the Pacific
What did they not write to Boris Johnson instead… The Prime Minister has just voted for what the poorest people on the planet feared: a reduction in British international aid. Traditionally, the UK spends 0.7% of its GDP. It will only be 0.5% next year, the head of government pleading for the coffers emptied by the Covid. That can not assume this decision
, the minister responsible for this budget resigned on 25 November.
The United Kingdom is not the only state to make savings on already very meager aid. We have seen a decrease in many programs in the first semester; they brought down off-grid solar sales in Africa in the first half of 2020
, deplores Ronan Dantec, ecological senator from Loire-Atlantique and president of Climate Chance. It presents these days the assessment of climate action outside States. The Clean Cooking Alliance, which brings together alternatives to cooking with charcoal or wood around the world, notes that a third of its members, manufacturers, distributors and other companies in the sector, had temporarily ceased their activities, during the Covid.
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