It’s the final week of negotiations at the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa and the conference centre is abuzz as ministers and head of states begin to arrive.
Also going up a gear is the campaigning taking place here. Today Time for Climate Jusitce campaigners with partners from the Global North and South joined forces to call for climate finance. Under a warm summer sky in Durban, we called for the Green Climate Fund to be filled, so the poorest countries are supported to develop cleanly and adapt to a changing climate.
Campaigners distributed money shaped leaflets and shook empty buckets labelled ‘Green Climate Fund’ to illustrate that the fund is currently empty and we need the rich nations to commit to filling it. Despite a long negotiation process the pledges given by rich countries to provide new and additional funding (beyond aid) to poor countries has not yet been delivered .This threatens lives and livelihoods of the world’s poorest.
As the climate crisis worsens, poor countries increasingly have to make themselves more resilient to the impacts of climate change and protect their citizens from disasters, but all of this comes with a price tag. The stunt attracted a lot of attention with press from countries such as Sweden, Norway, Mozambique, China and South Africa filming the event.
Time for Climate Justice will be at the UN talks for the rest of the week to continue to demand climate justice.
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