On Friday, young climate activists organised rallies and protests across the globe, from New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to demand that wealthy nations pay for the harm that global warming does to the underprivileged.
Six weeks prior to this year’s UN climate summit, known as COP27, vulnerable nations will demand compensation for damage caused by climate change to their homes, infrastructure, and means of subsistence.
At least 2,000 people gathered in New York on Friday for the march. They marched from Foley Square to lower Manhattan while singing phrases like “the people united, shall never be defeated.”
After the World Bank’s president, David Malpass, this week attempted to avoid a question about whether fossil fuels were dangerously warming the planet, a top climate adviser to US President Joe Biden said on Friday that the World Bank’s head should “not mince words” on the scientific consensus on climate change.
After receiving numerous requests to resign, Malpass later stated that he was not a believer in climate change.
The major agreement reached at the COP26 summit in Glasgow last November, which called on nations to do considerably more to reduce carbon emissions that cause global warming, is not anticipated to be replicated at the COP27 conference in Sharm El Sheikh.
