Last November 2021, the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change convened in Glasgow, Scotland. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UNFCCC Secretariat and the COP Presidency, held by the United Kingdom, had to make significant changes with regard to attendance and participation in the conference.
The more serious climate and pandemic injustice is of course the one that is playing in the real economy, in the real world where climate change is already wreaking havoc in communities all over the world and where coronavirus variants like Delta and Omicron are infecting and killing people everywhere even as it has made hundreds of millions poorer.
Adaptation measures need to be accelerated, including getting much better at disaster risk reduction and fundamental changes in land use policy. Absolutely no more land reclamation projects should be allowed – in Manila Bay, in Dumaguete, in Cebu, etc. Reclamation is also assisted suicide.
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