(Courtesy: Jimmy Domingo)
Nanawagan ang ibat ibang civil society organizations sa mga lider na dumadalo sa COP 27 (2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference) sa Egypt at G20 summit sa Indonesia na maglatag ng solusyon sa climate at economic justice na kinakaharap ngayon ng buong mundo.
Ayon kay Lidy Nacpil, coordinator ng Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), nakadidismaya na maraming mayayamang bansa ang hindi nabibigay ng climate finance.
“The majority of peoples and communities in Asia bear the brunt of the worsening climate crisis. This is on top of the multiple crises we face such as the food, social service, and health crises. We demand from COP 27 and the G20 summit the delivery of adequate, grants-based, and accessible climate finance, the establishment of a loss and damage fund, as well as reparations for the climate debt owed by rich countries to the Global South,” pahayag ni Nacpil.
“Governments of rich countries continue to lag on their obligations. They pledged to jointly mobilise $100 billion annually in climate finance by 2020 to fund climate action in developing countries. This is a ridiculously low amount considering the scale of need. But they failed to even meet this very amount,” dagdag ni Nacpil.
Ayon sa ulat ng 2022 Adaptation Gap Report, kailangan ng $160 billion hanggang $340 sa katapusan ng dekada at $565 billion sa taong 2050 na pondo para sa annual adaption.
Nakadidismaya dahil inuuna pa ng mga mayayamang bansa na pondohan ang fossil fuels kaysa sa climate finance.
“Climate finance should be provided as grants based on climate debt, not another opportunity for rich countries and corporations to profit from poor and vulnerable countries,” pahayag ni Nacpil.
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