Amnesty International wants an agreement to emerge from the United Nations climate conference (COP29) that promotes a significant increase in climate financing to combat “humanity’s greatest threat.”
Amnesty International (AI) defends, in a statement released this Wednesday, an agreement at COP29, which will take place between November 11 and 22 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which promotes needs-based climate finance and a complete, rapid and fair phase-out of fossil fuels reinforcing the importance of an energy transition that respects human rights.
AI highlights the need for a “Much greater climate finance to help finance just transitions to zero-carbon economies in low-income states.at least a trillion dollars a year,” reinforcing that the current lack of progress is “shocking” and that the fate of humanity depends on it.
Amnesty International is calling on high-income countries to take greater responsibility for the climate crisis, stressing that they “must negotiate in good faith to achieve an ambitious and appropriate target and deliver on their commitments.”
The organization emphasizes that financing the fight against climate change should be in the form of grants and not loans, and that “those most responsible for emissions contribute more.”
AI also notes that “in light of inadequate protection of human rights in the host country, States must also take measures to protect the freedom of expression and peaceful protest of all participants in COP29 and limit the harmful influence of fossil fuel lobbies that will be omnipresent. at the COP.”
AI classifies Azerbaijan as “a country with a terrible record in terms of respect for freedom of expression and dissent”.
In the statement, AI also warns that according to the annual emissions report of the United Nations Environment Programme, without significant changes the world will reach a “catastrophic increase” in global temperature of 2.6 ºC to 3.1 ºC this century.
Amnesty International calls for the development of new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – to finance the energy transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures – that respect human rights and that “keep global warming below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levelswith historic high-efficiency emitters, other high-emitting G20 countries and other high-efficiency fossil fuel producers going further and faster.”
Source: Observadora
