Social Justice Activist at COP31: ‘We’re Owed ... [Climate] Reparations’

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NACPIL: “And we are not going to be, as a people surviving the next decades without the delivery of this climate finance. It is really, truly unacceptable that for many years, many, many years, ever since, in fact, that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted by all countries, where the convention made it very clear it is an obligation of developed country parties to provide finance for the developing world, for the Global South, we have been met at every turn by efforts to evade and avoid this responsibility, to somehow make it look like it's our fault when climate action is not fully and successfully delivered, to make us look somehow that we are begging for help rather than being owed this climate finance as reparations for the many harms that we, as peoples of the Global South, have been suffering for many, many years because of their prime responsibility for this climate crisis. Today at COP, at COP 31, there are many, many negotiating tracks where climate finance has to be raised.”