In its report, the non -governmental organization denounces the “glaring” inequalities between the carbon -emitting countries and those which must most bear the consequences.
Le Monde With AFP
Devastating floods, extreme droughts, desertification: in six years, “acute hunger” has more than doubled in the countries most exposed to climatic disasters, according to the NGO Oxfam, which calls on industrialized states to massively reduce their emissions greenhouse gas and repair the damage caused. In a report published Friday, September 16, the NGO estimates that acute hunger has increased by 123 % since 2016 in ten countries among the most exposed to climate risks.
In these states – Somalia, Haiti, Djibouti, Kenya, Niger, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe -, 48 million people suffer from acute food insecurity and need emergency aid to survive. 18 million of them are even considered to be on the verge of famine.
If conflicts and economic crises remain the main people responsible for hunger, “extreme weather phenomena, more and more numerous and violent, also reduce the capacity of populations poor to counter hunger and to face shocks to come “, underlines the NGO.
” compensation to the most affected countries for damages “
Somalia, which is one of the less well -prepared countries to face the climate emergency, for example faces the worst drought in its history, a million people who have already fled their home. In Guatemala, the lack of water also led to a loss of 80 % of the maize harvest and decimated coffee plantations, leading many inhabitants to leave the country.
For Oxfam, the fact that the less responsible states of the climate crisis are those who suffer the most “is a glaring proof of existence of global inequalities”. The industrialized countries and in particular those of the G20 are “responsible for more than three quarters of world carbon emissions”, while these ten vulnerable countries collectively emit 0.13 %, underlines the NGO.
“In less than 18 days, the profits of fossil fuel companies would be enough to finance all of the UN humanitarian calls for 2022”, which amount to $ 49 billion, she also calculates .
During the UN 2022 general meeting that opened Tuesday and COP27, scheduled for November, world leaders must undertake massively their emissions and “offer compensation to the most Touched for the prejudices “they undergo, pleads Oxfam. The cancellation of the debt of these vulnerable states would also allow them to invest to combat climate urgency.