Climate campaign groups marched at the UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, calling for reparations for rising “loss and damage” caused by global warming, under the watchful eye of security staff who controlled the protest tightly. COP27
on Saturday, November 12, calling for reparations for rising “loss and damage” caused by global warming, under the watchful eye of security staff who controlled the protest tightly.without human rights” – and lamented that they had not been permitted to demonstrate outside the sprawling convention center where the two-week talks are being held.
The issue of “loss and damage” has climbed to the top of the political agenda at UN climate talks as the harm being done to frontline communities by extreme weather and rising seas have accelerated and spread in all parts of the world in recent years.loss andBut while wealthy nations have now recognized the problem, they remain reluctant to dig into their own pockets.
On Friday, representatives of the oil and gas industry shared platforms with government officials to outline the measures they are taking to cut planet-heating emissions from their operations, on “Decarbonisation Day”. The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk on Tuesday appealed for Egypt to free the prominent blogger, a dual British and Egyptian citizen, whose life is “at acute risk” following a hunger strike that escalated with the start of the COP27 climate summit.
“We will not be silenced,” she added, calling for the release “of all freedom-fighting activists and prisoners of conscience around the world”.
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