“Money is needed to revitalize developing areas, build a stronger economy, better dams, better defenses against rising sea levels. Farmers are struggling because of droughts and heavy rains. Some people sometimes can’t buy no food in this situation. Money is needed Of course, money is not the only solution. That’s why we want subsidies, not loans.
This Oku.Azin his statement to the representative of the “Global Young Greens” organization from the Netherlands, which participated in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) held in Baku Timon Hogenaar saying.
T. Hogenaar described it as “barbaric” that developed countries allocate little money to solving climate problems.
“It’s wild. What’s confusing to me is that we’re all seeing the consequences of the climate crisis. We’re all seeing the sudden rise in temperatures, the sudden downpours. But some countries are still making a lot of money from climate pollutants and are they feel comfortable with it.
In some ways, the long-term message is harder to “sell” politically, so we must act now. But that will require change, systemic change, and we are not there yet.
I believe that the situation we live in now will change. We can build a beautiful, healthy economy, a beautiful state where people can truly thrive and care for each other; That’s an easy message. As world leaders are thinking about next year’s elections instead of solving climate problems, their long-term political consequences, they are opting for the easy message. “It’s really sad.”
“One of our demands here is that it is better to have no agreement than a bad agreement. Although we have to say goodbye to many of our friends and colleagues on Saturday, we are many and the power is in the people. We will continue with our demands” added T. Hogenaar.
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