"What do we want?"
Climate justice.
When do we want it?
Now !
Chant the young environmentalists gathered in Stockholm for the last Fridays for Future event (Fridays for the Future) before Cop26 in Glasgow.
Coming from all over the world, and in particular from the southern hemisphere, they took to the streets to sensitize international leaders to the damage caused by global warming which is hitting the poorest countries.
"European countries and the United States are historically responsible for CO2 emissions," insists Joao Duccini, Brazilian activist.
All countries must obviously act, but they have more responsibilities because they have exploited my country like other countries of the South, ”he denounces.
“What I expect from Cop26 is that it be inclusive, that it includes everyone,” hopes Kevin Mtai, from Kenya.
"We must distance ourselves from the idea that the climate crisis is in the future when it is really a problem of the present which is underway at the moment", concludes Mitzi Jonelle Tan, representative of the Philippines.
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According to the latest UN assessment published in mid-September, the world is heading for a “catastrophic” warming of + 2.7 ° C by the end of the century, while each additional fraction of a degree multiplies the dramatic consequences.
