Rich nations tried to keep 'climate debt' off the table, but pressure to pay for their outsized emissions is mounting.
With COP27 being the first “convention of the parties” hosted in an African nation, the 12-day summit has been dubbed the “African COP” by some and the demands of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations — many though certainly not all located on the continent — have been front and center ahead of the gathering.
“We do not need any more extractive projects,” Ninteretse added. “We refuse to feed the fossil fuel addiction of the global North, and we remind world leaders of their responsibility to address the three big components of the climate crisis: adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage.
It is such reluctance and the history of obstruction by the world’s wealthy and most-polluting nations that leads Saño to warn that a very difficult still lies ahead when it comes to climate justice for the Global South.
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