The latest UN climate report highlights the devastating inequality of climate change and the need for a radical response.
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Hi John,
The latest UN climate report highlights the devastating inequality of climate change and the need for a radical response. Join our call for the UK to pay its fair share.
On Monday, the IPCC (a UN body of the world’s leading scientists) published a new report examining the likely impacts of climate change.
It tells us how more than 3 billion people, the vast majority of them in the global south, will be exposed to devastating impacts of climate chaos, both now and in the decades to come.
At COP26, the global south was already calling for help to adapt to these changes by asking for more climate finance and for compensation (known as 'loss and damage') for climate disasters.
But rich countries again offered only thin gruel when it came to increasing finance, and blocked progress on loss and damage altogether.
We need the UK to pay its fair share of climate finance and to use its continuing COP Presidency to ensure better progress is made at COP27 later this year.
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** “A brief and rapidly closing window”
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The latest IPCC report demonstrates that climate chaos is already a reality for much of the global south, with floods, droughts and extreme weather having already rapidly increased in vulnerable regions.
Some of the losses, to communities, families and ecosystems, are already irreversible. Between half and three quarters of the world could be exposed to “life-threatening climatic conditions” due to extreme heat and humidity by 2100. Before that, many will be at risk of displacement, food shortages and water insecurity.
But while the report makes sobering reading, it is also a call to action. The final sentence of the report tells us that there remains a “brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future”, but this can only be achieved through “concerted global action”.
A crucial part of that action is providing frontline communities with the finance to adapt to climate change and to compensate for the losses they are already suffering.
Join us in calling on the UK to do its fair share on climate finance.
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** The case for climate reparations
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What this report highlights most starkly is that it is communities which have contributed the least to climate change who will suffers its worst effects.
Beyond the increased finance that is crucial in the short term, there remains the unanswered question of how rich countries and corporations should atone for the damage they have done to people and planet.
One way would be offering a programme of climate reparations to the global south. Although this would include financial transfers, it might also incorporate the patent-free transfer of green technology, cancellation of debts, and rewiring of our global economy to build a more equitable and sustainable future.
It is moments such as these that show exactly why reparations are needed.
In solidarity,
Daniel Willis,
Finance campaigner, Global Justice Now
Read more
1. IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown ([link removed]) , Guardian, 28 February 2022
2. Financing justice? UK climate finance and how to increase ambition at COP26 ([link removed]) , Global Justice Now briefing, 22 September 2021
3. There can be no eco justice without debt cancellation ([link removed]) , Huck Magazine, 3 November 2021
4. Guide to climate reparations ([link removed]) , gal-dem magazine, 5 November 2021
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