COP29 March For International Local weather Justice: When this march was happening on Saturday sixteenth November 2024, COP19 was simply starting in Baku, and there was nonetheless some small room for optimism, though it gave the impression to be dominated by fossil gas lobbyists, from its president Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology and Pure Sources of Azerbaijan Republic and beforehand been Vice-President for Ecology at Azerbaijan’s nationwide oil firm SOCAR, down.
However now we all know the settlement reached after many hours of argument on the finish of the assembly we will solely conclude ‘TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE’. Even within the unlikely occasion of the wealthier international locations really preserving their guarantees we’ll see dramatic catastrophes in a lot of the International South within the coming years.
And naturally we within the wealthier international locations whose industrialisation created the mess the world is in as we burnt coal and oil leading to an enormous improve in carbon dioxide ranges blanketing the world may also undergo.
More and more chaotic climate patterns, an increasing number of severe storms with extra floods and better wind harm. Better droughts too and extra forest fires. Extra disruption of agricultural manufacturing and better meals costs.
Extra lack of species too, aided by different of the ‘advantages’ of business manufacturing with new pesticides coming to help these at present decimating pollinating bugs akin to bees.
As most of the marchers identified with their placards and flags, warfare and militarisation are enormous drivers of local weather change, each from the manufacturing of weapons and their use. One poster identified that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2023 produced roughly half as a lot CO2 because the UK’s emissions in the identical yr. Conflict doesn’t simply kill individuals but additionally is ecocide on a grand scale.
The persevering with assaults by Israel on Gaza and Lebanon have additionally added enormous quantities of carbon dioxide in addition to killing many 1000’s of civilians each by way of direct bombing of properties, colleges and hospitals but additionally by way of a deliberate coverage of destroying infrastructure and stopping humanitarian provides of meals and medicines – for which the Worldwide Legal Courtroom not too long ago issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallan.
Banners, posters and placards on the march rejected militarisation and known as for an finish to arming Israel. ‘THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT STANDS WITH PALESTINE – STOP FUELLING GENOCIDE AND CLIMATE BREAKDOWN’.
However nonetheless hopeless the world state of affairs appears now, the election of Trump as US Pesident appears definitely to make issues worse – already he has chosen Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking firm Liberty Vitality as Vitality Secretary to guide his promise of accelerating US fossil gas manufacturing below his marketing campaign pledge “Drill, Child, drill”.
The present world political system dominated by establishments such because the IMF and World Financial institution and by Western governments more and more appears unable to provide you with any efficient options to the local weather disaster – as COP 19 and the earlier 28 UN local weather Change Conferences have proven. Because the placards carried by most of the marchers said, we’d like system change.
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