Don’t forget climate change | Opinion

It will be held next month in a resort on the Red Sea Next round (COP27) International Climate Conferences. Egypt wants its headquarters to serve as a showcase for the African continent to which it belongs, and therefore, one of the big issues that will be discussed is the so-called “climate compensation,” or damage payments for rich countries. They will have to contribute to the service of the poor for a problem they did not contribute to creating, but from which they suffer more than anyone else. It is well known that the world does not function according to the standards of justice, but the state of the climate already seems to be reeling. This is a political challenge that the developed world will not accept without Nomantine resistance, but it is important to put it on the agenda. Climate compensation under discussion includes concepts such as natural fires, floods, hurricanes, and other extreme events whose frequency and intensity have increased due to warming. There is also talk of much slower but less reversible effects, such as sea level rise due to melting polar ice. Poor countries have no way of avoiding, mitigating or mitigating these situations, and they have done nothing to cause them. The reason is we, rich nations that have been emitting gases like cows for a century, that it took us almost so long to figure out the scientific arguments to reduce them. So now we have to pay, otherwise it will be up to us if there is an international justice system worthy of the name.

It was the developing countries that presented the proposal at last year’s conference in Glasgow, UK. The United States refused to support it. If the second emitter in the world maintained this position, nothing would move.