Fatshimetrie: Pressure is mounting on negotiators on the final scheduled day of the 29th UN Climate Change Conference. Youth groups, symbolically shutting their mouths, denounce rights violations.
Among them is Georgina Kerubo, a 21-year-old Kenyan activist. “I think most people don’t understand, especially people my age. But that’s why I’m here. As an activist, it’s my duty, my oath as an activist to educate my people about the issues that really concern us. That’s also a reason to strike. To raise awareness, to make people aware of the issues that need to be discussed,” said the member of the Global Young Green organization.
Groups such as Human Rights Watch have sounded the alarm about the wave of repression facing environmental defenders.
On the sidelines of the protest, titled “Human Rights Die in Silence,” one activist criticized rich countries’ willingness to spend billions on the military but “crumbs” on climate. “Every single one of us is going to die. If you don’t release money for climate finance, not just crumbs, not just crumbs. We need the full amount of money that we need, billions.”
Experts estimate that developing countries need at least $1 trillion for climate adaptation, but the draft text that emerged Friday proposes a figure of $250 billion by 2035.
The current $100 billion contribution from rich countries was agreed in 2009.
COP 29 is likely to run over its scheduled timeframe.
Fatshimetrie: a scene of mobilization and call to action that shows how urgent it is for world leaders to take concrete measures to combat climate change and protect human rights, in order to guarantee a viable future for generations to come.