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Key_Concepts_-_Climate_Finance_Reparations_and_Human_Rights.pdf
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Debt swaps for climate and conservation goals have experienced a resurgence in recent years. As COP29 negotiations kick off, they are presented as a dual solution for debt and climate issues, however they fall short in practice and pose risks that threaten to harm global south countries and communities. This briefing explains why instead of debt swaps, we need urgent debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance.
Interesting discussion on the ILO’s recent World Report on Social Protection 2024-26
Social protection is a prerequisite for climate justice – Development Pathways
Pax payer subsidized charity foundations funding climate change desinformation!
Inside the World of Fossil Fuel Philanthropy – Inequality.org
The author argues that the term ‘anthropocene’ to denote the period of the modern environmental crisis is hollow and a political digression from the reality, and that the crisis is a product of corporate exploitation of the earth’s system. Putting the blame on the entire human society for the environmental crisis is a Western ideological ploy to shield the corporate culprits who have caused the destruction on the strength of their capital and technology. He therefore proposes the term ‘corporatocene’ to mark the epoch of environmental crisis. If anything it is the Western colonization and the invention of the steam engine that are the markers of the start of the pandemic assault on the earth’s natural systems. Obfuscating the debate on this by introducing politically motivated substitutes will only frustrate the efforts to forge meaningful solutions to the climate crisis.
Paper published by the South Center
Member organizations of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors collectively advocate for strategic utilization of financial resources from this Fund. A central concern is to specifically allocate fund resources for the establishment and fortification of right-based Social Protection Systems. These systems play a pivotal role in mitigating the catastrophic consequences of climate change and adequately cushioning individual damages and losses, while contributing to increase resilience and improve adaptation.
Readhttps://www.socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org/2023/11/the-gcspf-demands-at-cop28/
More than 550 economists, development and climate experts including leading economists Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Picketty, Jayati Ghosh, Ann Pettifor and Jason Hickel, philosopher Olufemi Taiwo and climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Hilda Nakabuye, have signed an open letter calling for debt cancellation at COP28. The open letter also received support from almost 300 organizations worldwide, including some of the most relevant climate networks, development international NGOs and human rights organisations.1
The statement, coordinated by The Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development, Latindadd, The European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and Debt Justice, calls for cancellation of the debts of lower income countries on the front line of the climate emergency, and for rich countries to significantly increase levels of grant-based climate finance.
Many in the wealthy West have misrepresented the causes of global warming, offering false solutions while claiming the high moral ground. This distracts attention from how they became wealthy while emitting greenhouse gases.
Article by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Yin Shao loong
- Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent surged to 16 percent of world’s total CO2 emissions in 2019.
- Their carbon emissions are enough to cause 1.3 million excess deaths due to heat.
- Unequal countries suffer seven times more flood fatalities than more equal countries.
- Fairly taxing the super-rich would help curb both climate change and inequality.
A message from Oxfam International
“We praise charity efforts to combat climate change in countries like Bangladesh as generous, without critiquing why they are made necessary in the first place”
With facts and numbers…
Read the article by Tapti Sen
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