I've just sent the following messages reminding Gordon Brown of the climate debt we owe to the majority world.
Dear Prime Minister, FINAL DEMAND: UK’s climate debt to the world’s poorest people The industrialised world has become rich through a carbon-intensive model of development. It is responsible for over 70 per cent of historical carbon emissions. This leaves the UK with a massive climate debt to the world’s poorest people. We hereby demand the UK stops increasing this debt by radically cutting emissions immediately. Furthermore, the UK’s outstanding climate debt to the world’s poorest people must be paid in full by providing: • Both the funds and free transfer of technology to enable climate-friendly development. • Financial compensation to the developing world to support it in adapting to the devastating effects of climate change. FAILURE TO PAY THIS DEBT WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE GLOBAL INJUSTICE Please respond before the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. Yours sincerely, ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear G77 Ambassador, I am writing to you as part of the G77 group of developing countries negotiating collectively at the Copenhagen climate summit. I want you to know that I have written to my government demanding that they recognise and repay the climate debt that the UK owes to the Global South. I have insisted that offsetting cannot count towards paying this debt, and that finance for adaptation and mitigation must not be through the World Bank. Please keep your nerve at Copenhagen, and demand what the UK and the rest of the rich world owes you.
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