Vulnerable States Demand Progress on Climate Loss and Damage Fund
Fragile states and campaigners are calling for urgent progress in financing the loss and damage caused by climate change. cop 27 Negotiations enter the final days.
The issue of loss and damage to people’s homes, farms, schools and transport caused by rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather is a key focus at the latest UN conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It has become.
Developing countries are at the forefront of the inevitable impacts they cannot protect themselves from, but they rarely cause crises.
They are supported by campaigners calling for a global fund under the United Nations climate change process. This will allow wealthy and polluted countries to compensate for the damage they have suffered.
But on the final day of negotiations at Cop27, the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) accused developed countries of being “vehemently linked to slowing progress” by setting up a fund at COP27.
recent devastating floods Pakistan When Nigeria and several years of drought horn of africa At Cop27, we put pressure on countries to resolve this issue.
The G77 group of 134 developing countries and China have submitted proposals to establish a fund at Cop27, but the latest draft for negotiations lists only one option to address the issue. , including the establishment of a financial institution in the next two years.
Molwyn Joseph, Minister of Health, Health and Environment of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of Aosis, said of the developed world:
He said only informal consultations had taken place and no formal negotiations had commenced, warning that “we have gone too far to fail to finance the loss and damage.”
“We very much appreciate the indications that countries such as the UK and New Zealand are actively engaging and urging other developed countries to assist the most vulnerable in this process that they are obliged to do. We are calling on you to uphold the integrity of the
He said the group’s countries were being pushed “to the brink” and warned that “small island developing states will no longer be able to afford delays in funding loss and damage.”
Nafkote Dhabi, head of climate change policy at Oxfam, said including loss and damage on the Cop27 agenda “remains a political game for developed countries, ending the summit without agreement on the way forward.” It is very likely,” he said.
“It is important that developing countries have access to formal funds to pay for the damage and losses they already suffer today,” she said.
Nushrat Chowdhury, Christian Aid’s climate justice adviser from Bangladesh, said her country’s homes, farms and villages were already being washed away by rising sea levels.
And she warned:
She said the UK has remained silent on the issue of loss and damage despite claiming to be a climate advocate, and supported calls to create a special loss and damage fund in the UK. asked to do
The UK also needs to fund losses and damages, as other countries have done, she said, adding: “If the UK does this, it will create momentum for other countries to follow suit. It will be a big statement of support.”
Rebecca Newsom, Director of Political Affairs greenpeace uk“The UK government should do everything in its power to secure a high-level political agreement on the damages fund by the end of the year.”
She said the government should not be distracted by questions about the fund’s design and mechanisms as there was a process and forum to answer these questions over the next two years.
“At a time when catastrophic climate change is threatening the lives and livelihoods of people in developing countries, blocking this deal would have very bad consequences for the UK,” she warned.
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