Heatwaves across the UK, Europe and South Asia are showing us that the climate crisis is already with us, with communities in the global south...

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Hi John,
Heatwaves across the UK, Europe and South Asia are showing us that the climate crisis is already with us, with communities in the global south suffering the worst impacts.

Next week could see the UK’s hottest ever day, with 43 degree temperatures predicted at the peak of this intense heatwave. Even higher temperatures are predicted in southern France and Spain, with warnings of extreme thunderstorms to follow.

While some parts of the press have implied this is a positive thing, and a good opportunity to go to the beach, we know that intense heat can be incredibly dangerous, even deadly.

But we also know that these impacts are being felt even more intensely in the global south, despite the climate crisis being driven by rich countries in the north. Earlier this year, nearly 100 people died as a result of heatwaves with nearly 50 degree temperatures in India and Pakistan.

Frontline communities facing these impacts have been calling for climate compensation, called loss and damage, so that they can rebuild after extreme weather. However, they have been regularly blocked by the US and EU in climate negotiations.

Will you stand with us in solidarity with frontline communities and call on the UK to support loss and damage?
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** What is loss and damage?
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Blocs of countries, including the least developed countries and small island states, have regularly called for loss and damage finance at international talks.

They have highlighted how climate change, driven mostly by the high historic emissions of rich countries and polluting corporations in the global north, is causing widespread economic damage to their countries (as well as financially unquantifiable losses to societies and human life).

Countries like the UK therefore have a historic responsibility and duty to respond to these calls.

However, at COP26 and previous talks, rich countries have repeatedly blocked attempts to set up such a fund. At the latest climate talks in Bonn this June, rich countries tried to remove loss and damage from the agenda of COP27 altogether.

We can’t stand for this injustice. With COP27 taking place in North Africa, there is growing pressure from the global climate justice movement to use this historic opportunity to finally set up a loss and damage fund.

Join us in calling on the government to support a loss and damage fund for the global south.
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** Make polluters pay
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Rich countries have repeatedly tried to avoid and back out of their responsibility to pay for the damage they’ve caused.

They have already failed to meet the climate finance target of transferring $100 billion a year to the global south by 2020, while governments have used loans and raided their aid budgets to inflate their contributions.

Some estimates suggest the UK should contribute $46 billion a year (1.5% of GDP) to climate finance - many others suggest higher figures. But while our government absolutely should be contributing more, we also need to make the polluting fossil fuel corporations, and the banks that fund them, stump up for the damage they’ve caused.

Instead of evading their historic responsibility for climate chaos, governments and corporations should be making reparations. Loss and damage is just one element of that, but it is an important first step towards justice.

Will you join us in supporting those calls?
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In solidarity,
Daniel Willis
Climate campaigner, Global Justice Now

Read more

[1] ‘The case for climate reparations is now irrefutable’, Daniel Willis, Open Democracy ([link removed] ) , March 2022

[2] ‘Financing justice? UK climate finance and how to increase ambition at COP26’, briefing ([link removed] ) , September 2021

[3] 'The burning case for climate reparations', Harpreet Kaur Paul and Tatiana Garavito, ([link removed]) June 2022
** Powerful multinational corporations are continuing to fuel and profit from the climate crisis.
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