Low vaccination rates in poor countries and onerous quarantines risk tilting 2021's U.N. climate talks further in rich nations' favor. Advocates worry that’s by design.
Low vaccination rates in poor countries and onerous quarantines risk tilting 2021's U.N. climate talks further in rich nations' favor. Advocates worry that’s by design.Advocates for action on climate change hold a demonstration in London last month.: Poor countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America that have contributed the least amount of planet-warming gases to the atmosphere face the gravest threats of drought, extreme heat and chaotic storms in a changed climate.
and its growing list of infectious variants. Many fear they won’t be able to attend the world’s most important climate summit, further stacking the deck in favor of the countries that grew rich burning coal and oil.to postpone November’s 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, until early next year, when more of the world’s population will be fully vaccinated against the deadly disease.
“There has always been an inherent power imbalance within the UN climate talks, between rich and poor nations, and this is now compounded by the health crisis,” Climate Action Network Executive Director Tasneem Essop said in a statement. “Looking at the current timeline for COP26, it is difficult to imagine there can be fair participation from the Global South under safe conditions and it should therefore be postponed.
“COP26 would only be legitimate if it were to be participatory, inclusive and safe, with equal conditions to participate for civil society from all countries. A virtual option or a hybrid alternative are barely inclusive,” said Patricia de Almeida Zuppi, a top adviser at the Brazilian conservation group Rede de Cooperação Amazônica, which is among CLARA’s roughly 40 organizations. “A fair and safe solution presupposes the postponement of COP26.
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