15 September 2022: What is the connection between climate justice and refugees
Storm meets Little Amal at COP 26: https://youtu.be/WrrDbnqK0Fc
Global News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvwhsMgn2c
United Nations: from 2mins 45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9PH2x_n94w
From the Office of the High Commissioner – Human Rights: Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, recently warned that the earth is on track to become “unlivable” as a result of the escalating effects of the climate crisis.[1] The reality is that the planet is already “unlivable” for a large portion of the world’s population and, although all inhabitants of the earth are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, some remain more vulnerable than others. The populations of the Global South, together with racially marginalized groups in the Global North, bear the disproportionate burdens of climate change and environmental degradation.[2] Whereas countries of the Global North are responsible for almost half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions between 1715-2017,[3] it is projected that the Global South will incur 75-80 per cent of the cost of climate change.[4] Estimates suggest that by 2050, climate change could cause the displacement of 140 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America alone.[5] The latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recognized that “[v]ulnerability of ecosystems and people to climate change differs substantially among and within regions […], driven by patterns of intersecting socio-economic development, unsustainable ocean and land use, inequity, marginalization, historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism, and governance.”[6]
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