This morning the some of leading development and environmental NGOs including Christian Aid, Greenpeace, WWF, Action Aid, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth surprised delegates arriving at the convention centre where the UN climate negotiations are taking place with an urgent call on countries at the UN climate summit in Doha to prevent the conference ending in disaster.
After two weeks of negotiations parties have reached a deadlock which threatens to scupper any meaningful action on reducing carbon emissions in the short term, making progress on a long term climate treaty from 2015 and providing finance for developing countries suffering the consequences of climate change. The action eluded to the powerful speech by the Philippines yesterday during the KP plenary demanding international climate action.
The people who have imprinted the lightest carbon footprint on this world are the ones suffering the first and the worst. Years were spent to ensure we have effective climate laws shaped by what science requires, not just what politicians are willing to offer. Rich countries need to do the heavy lifting making the needed cuts in carbon emissions and provide finance to those affected by climate change.
Less than 24hs to the end of the conference developed countries must step up to the plate.
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