Anuna De Wever Instagram – As a reminder of what #Belgium is actually doing at #COP26 right now:
❌ Has no federal agreement on a common target
❌ Refuses to be part of high ambition coalition
❌ Has zero willingness to put pressure on international global targets
And at the same time, we are preaching about reaching the targets of the Paris agreement while we know the 2030 and 2050 targets are actually leaving millions of people behind. At the current rate we will exceed our carbon budget in about 6 years.
This means every next generation will inherit a world that becomes more and more uninhabitable as climate change will be irreversible.
We are destroying the very ecosystems that are keeping us alive. By 2050 we will have more than half a billion extra climate refugees. In 4 years from now, half of the world’s population will have experienced water scarcity and adaptation costs for continents like Africa will become so high that they’ll have to use the financial resources for education, healthcare and food supplies.
Don’t be fooled. We are not on track. To be honest, contrary to our politicians, we are today deciding that some lives are not worth saving. And we know people will die. Most often the people that are least responsible for the climate crisis and already live in vulnerable livelihoods and communities.
We are here as activists to put pressure on these policies, and speaking the truth about what is happening is the essence of that pressure.
Share this video. Help us to spread the truth. Help us to hold them accountable!
🎥 @thomas.maddens | Posted on 03/Nov/2021 22:16:36
