The View | Developing world crying out for climate justice as green finance promises go unfulfilled
- Unless major carbon emitters drastically reduce their pollution and pay for the poor to prepare for coming disasters, suffering will be an everyday reality
- International financial support to build climate-resilient and green societies is negligible, leaving developing countries to fend for themselves
Many more people across the developing world are living through similar stories. Most often, people from marginalised or lower-income backgrounds experience the worst effects of the climate crisis, but those people who are harmed did the least to cause this crisis.
All this is happening with a roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature above pre-industrial levels. Unless the major carbon-emitting countries, corporations and individuals step up to drastically reduce their carbon pollution in this decade and pay for the poor to prepare for coming disasters, stories of human suffering fuelled by extreme rain or scorching heat and the resulting floods, cyclones, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires will be our everyday reality.
Tackling the climate crisis has never been more urgent. As climate impacts escalate, so does the cost for the communities to adapt.
