The Charm El-Cheikh Climate Conference recognized for the first time the need to financially help the most vulnerable countries to face the damage caused by warming. But the 196 countries present have failed to tackle fossil fuels.
by Audrey Garric (Charm El-Cheikh (Egypt), Special Envoy)
Climate negotiations are theaters, with their share of postures and reversal of the situation. Representations of a particular genre, of which we do not know in advance the number of acts or the register. The World Climate Conference (COP27), which was held with the backdrop of the seaside resort of Charm El-Cheikh (Egypt), did not derogate from the rule, ending Sunday, November 20, with thirty -Six hours late compared to the official fence, after multiple twists and turns. It ended on a double tone: that of epic and tragic.
Because if it has recognized for the first time the need to financially help the most vulnerable countries which are already undergoing climatic damage, it has not managed to speed up the fight against climate change.
The 196 countries have marked a historic advance on the crucial challenge of the conference: they have decided to create a fund for “losses and damage”, in order to financially help “particularly vulnerable” developing countries to do Faced with these irreversible damage caused by global warming. This decision, welcomed by nourished applause, is the culmination of a request that the countries of the South have been carrying for thirty years.
“The COP27 did what no other COP had achieved,” said Mohamed Adow, executive director of the NGO Power Shift Africa. “This question was not even on the agenda at the start of the negotiations and today we are entering history, he praises. This shows that the United Nations process can give results and that The world can recognize the fate of vulnerable people. “
” climatic debt “
In the conference center located on the Red Sea, vulnerable states have continued to hammer it: they are the main victims of droughts, floods or hurricanes when they have contributed less to gas emissions to greenhouse effect. Impacts that cause human and economic losses, aggravate their debt and hamper their development. “It is a vicious circle that must be broken,” pleaded the Senegalese Minister of the Environment, Alioune Ndoye, on behalf of the least advanced countries. More than a question of solidarity, this request for financial assistance is a “moral obligation” and a “climate debt”, recalled the small islands, while the developed countries have built their wealth thanks to fossil fuels – Coal, oil, gas -, main causes of warming.
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