“Climate-Vulnerable” Nations Demand Action Or Something

Maybe we could start with making the 50K+ who took fossil fueled flights to Turkey for a climate conference pay their fair share? Maybe do it by Zoom? Oh, hey, we could shut down all the fossil fueled airports and seaports in their nations

Climate-vulnerable nations urge immediate action at UN Cop31 summit

Urgent action is needed to help countries hardest-hit by the effects of climate change, small island leaders said on Thursday at the United Nations climate talks in Turkey, describing global warming as a life-or-death issue for their people.

“It is time to move past the talking,” said Alix Sebastien Pillay, vice-president of Seychelles, who said the survival of his country, a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is at stake. “For Seychelles, climate action is not simply an environmental priority.” (snip)

A report released on Thursday offered a grim assessment: progress in slowing global warming has essentially stalled for the past five years because any steps forward were cancelled out by inaction elsewhere.

The first five years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world did so much that it trimmed an entire degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from warming projections, but nothing has changed since, the independent Climate Action Tracker said in its report.

Interesting how all those nations who were Doing Something decided “nah, we want to live our lives” post-COVID

Leaders from countries ravaged by climate change said adequate financing must be made available to deal with climate disasters, such as the 2022 floods in Pakistan that submerged over a third of the country, resulting in thousands of deaths and more than US$30 billion in damage.

“The future we feared has become the present we are living,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Climate change knows no borders. No nation can face it alone.”

Surprise….well, not really, it’s all about the strings-free climate cash.