Posted on 09/23/2021 1:38:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Faced with what they see as an existential threat, leaders from low-lying and island nations implored rich countries at the United Nations General Assembly this week to act more forcefully against a warming planet.
The failure by developed economies to effectively curb their greenhouse gas emissions contributes to rising sea levels and especially imperils island and low-lying nations at the mercy of water.
"We simply have no higher ground to cede," Marshall Islands President David Kabua told leaders in a pre-recorded speech at the high-level gathering on Wednesday. "The world simply cannot delay climate ambition any further."
Guyana President Irfaan Ali criticized large polluters for not delivering on promises to curb emissions, accusing them of "deception" and "failure" and warning that climate change will kill far more people than the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said small island states and countries with low-lying coastlines, like Guyana, will bear the full brunt of the impending disaster despite being among the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases.
"This is not only unfair, it is unjust," he said.
Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the International Crisis Group, said there had been a "sense of existential crisis" running through the annual gathering at the United Nations.
"Both Beijing and Washington want to show they are leading the fight against global warming. If the small islands' leaders can't get people to listen at this General Assembly, they never will," Gowan said.
President Chan Santokhi of Suriname, where much of the coastal area is low-lying, called for "ambitious and actionable commitments" to be made at COP26, urging developed countries to recommit to the $100 billion per year.
Santokhi said that ideals and political commitments do not mean much if not supported by new financial resources.
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Translation: Send us free money!
What a big steaming pile.
Translation: “We need more money to steal!”
Just raise the land. Or would that cause the island to tip over?
give us your guilt-money!
Has any island state or low-lying coast of a nation been flooded yet?
Stop all this climate crisis nonsense. Everyone knows it’s a scam. Call me when China, the worlds most prolific CO2 producer, commits more hard cash than any other country.
I have spent quite a bit of time in the Philippines and am aware of the corruption there. Climate money sent to them will disappear, with little accomplished. The answer will always be to “send more money”.
Not even believing it. His Arrogance bought an estate in the Northeast lowlands ... I’m sure he didn’t give an ounce of credibility to the Climate Change Conspiracy theory.
Our house has a beautiful sea view, is about 500 meters away from the beach and 90 meters above sea level. We have been waiting patiently 6 years for the sea to rise up so we can have beachfront property but so far it hasn’t budged.
>>I have spent quite a bit of time in the Philippines and am aware of the corruption there. Climate money sent to them will disappear, with little accomplished. The answer will always be to “send more money”.<<
I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for about a year right after the big hurricane hit a few years ago. Same thing. And the average Juan o Maria was saying “we were sent billions but us folk have not seen one damn dime.”
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegsactly.
Yup. The only rescue will be pallets of cash. By the way. Any moving vans lined up by obxxx’s Marthas vineyard digs? Only 9.325 years left.
We could send them a small mountain of gold bars and they would say, “Thanks, but the island is still sinking. Could you send more of those gold bars?”
Islands come and go, seashores erode, no matter what the climate is.
Yep, people on the Marshall Islands have been told for the last twenty years that any day 'they'll go under water'... But NOTING HAS HAPPENED IN ALL THOSE YEARS IN ALL THOSE LIES IN ALL THE FEAR PORN... NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.
Manhatten was suppose to go under too... and large parts of Florida... and it hasn't happened.
Here's what we should tell President David Kabur - we will send money WHEN OBAMA AND OTHER WHITE LIBERAL ELITES' SELL THEIR OCEAN FRONT HOMES...
It’d be cheaper to chip off the top of Everest for fill.
How many miles of land have they lost to global warming and not erosion?
They should call “Seawall’s Are Us” and get some estimates.
Is Obama’s House considered a low lying Nation?
They should rename those Nations “New Orleans” and Elect a Black DEMONCRAT as their Leader. That will fix everything.
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