Reparations for Climate Debt demanded from Highly-Industrialized Countries
Protesters from Asia, Latin America, Africa and other regions of the world staged a lively demonstration in front of the Bella Center today to demand reparations from highly-industrialized countries for their climate debt and for the World Bank and its sister institutions to stay out of climate finance.
The demonstrators demanded that on industrialized countries including the United States, Great Britain and Japan to give reparations for the climate debt they owe to the peoples of the South, developing countries and marginalized communities everywhere. The capitalist industrialization of these countries were said to have driven the excessive carbon emissions of the past two centuries, and were undertaken at a very high cost now being shouldered by developing countries who are most vulnerable to climate-induced disasters.
Jubilee South International Coordinator Beverly Keene, from Argentina, stressed that now is the time for the North to clean up and return to nature and the peoples of the South, the atmospheric space they have been contaminating through their model of development based on fossil-fuel consumption and the total disregard for the rights of peoples and of mother earth. Reparations are needed now, not aid or a new round of illegitimate debt, in order to restore our planet and enable equitable development, or buen vivir, for everyone.
Today's action is part of a global campaign to demand reparations and restitution for the climate debt owed by the rich industrialized countries. Since the campaign was first initiated, more groups have also come to support the concept of a climate debt and have come to actively participate in demonstrations calling for reparations.
The demonstration was organized by Jubilee South, Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) Philippines, Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU) Indonesia, Grassroots Africa,and many more
Protesters from Asia, Latin America, Africa and other regions of the world staged a lively demonstration in front of the Bella Center today to demand reparations from highly-industrialized countries for their climate debt and for the World Bank and its sister institutions to stay out of climate finance.
The demonstrators demanded that on industrialized countries including the United States, Great Britain and Japan to give reparations for the climate debt they owe to the peoples of the South, developing countries and marginalized communities everywhere. The capitalist industrialization of these countries were said to have driven the excessive carbon emissions of the past two centuries, and were undertaken at a very high cost now being shouldered by developing countries who are most vulnerable to climate-induced disasters.
Jubilee South International Coordinator Beverly Keene, from Argentina, stressed that now is the time for the North to clean up and return to nature and the peoples of the South, the atmospheric space they have been contaminating through their model of development based on fossil-fuel consumption and the total disregard for the rights of peoples and of mother earth. Reparations are needed now, not aid or a new round of illegitimate debt, in order to restore our planet and enable equitable development, or buen vivir, for everyone.
Today's action is part of a global campaign to demand reparations and restitution for the climate debt owed by the rich industrialized countries. Since the campaign was first initiated, more groups have also come to support the concept of a climate debt and have come to actively participate in demonstrations calling for reparations.
The demonstration was organized by Jubilee South, Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) Philippines, Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU) Indonesia, Grassroots Africa,and many more
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