Sentences with phrase «climate debt»

The sharing of the emissions burden must be based on historical responsibility, capacity, and repayment of climate debt.

In reality, this «continuum» would amount to the rich nations, with their heavy climate debt, being handed a get out of jail free card!

Developed countries must lead, as they have consistently failed to fulfill their commitments They must live up to their historical climate debt and legal obligations.

Bolivia also demands that the international community recognize a historic climate debt owed by industrialized countries to developing countries.

If the carbon debt of 568 tons were to be valued at $ 40 per ton, the total owed to the poor countries would amount of $ 23 trillion dollars, implying climate debt payments of about $ 600 billion per year over the next 40 years.

We hold that the capitalist system and the developed capitalist countries as the main cause of climate change generated climate debt.

It also mean an increased emphasis on climate equity, the idea that climate action can only be viewed as a success if it leads to greater wealth transfer and a fulfillmet of climate debt.

This is what emerging nations refer to as «historic climate debt.»

An ethical approach to climate change including consideration of wealth redistribution to repay «climate debt» is one model for doing this.»

A great recent example is Bolivia: Evo Morales's government has championed the idea of «climate debt» at the UN, but at home Morales has been pursuing development projects that don't match his rhetoric of environmental concern.

The rich nations, he said, must recognize that they in essence owe the rest of the world a climate debt for the greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere from their century - plus head start in burning fossil fuels.

Through much of the meeting, President Evo Morales of Bolivia was the face of poor countries calling for the rich nations, which built nearly all of the existing human - generated blanket of greenhouse gases, to pay a «climate debt» to the world's vulnerable communities.

I am thinking about the moral hazard of masking our climate debt.

Mr. Obama is appearing to say that the wealthy countries that build the existing human - generated greenhouse blanket do owe a climate debt, of sorts, to the poorest countries in the world, but not — if I read this right — to China and the other emerging economic powerhouses of the world.

I've filed an update (link to come) that focuses on the arrival of Todd Stern, the United States climate envoy, and his blunt response to developing countries that are claiming the world's rich owe its poor a «climate debt.»

There's a climate debt that has never been paid.

We need agreements to force Northern countries to recognize their climate debt and to assume the commitment to pay it off.

Hence, those responsible in the North owe reparations for this climate debt to those in the South so that they can reduce their emissions, and adapt to climate change while developing sustainably.

This finance (or as some climate justice folks would call it: compensation, reparations, climate debt) needs to flow from developed countries to developing countries because of their historical responsibilities in getting us into this crisis.

This is a climate debt the industrialized world owes to these poor nations.

They don't like to talk about the distribution of wealth at the national level, much less the global level — where, as none other than Pope Francis has recently reminded us, we owe the developing world, the poorest people on the planet, a massive ecological and climate debt.

«The provision of climate finance from developed to developing countries is part of the repayment of the climate debt that developed countries owe developing countries.

This is true, not just with regard to the national debt, which will almost certainly increase the same way it tripled under the beloved Ronald Reagan, not only will that national debt increase, but the climate debt, in a sense, what we have to do to address climate change, will be more and more difficult to pay back or pay down.»

They continue to ignore their climate debt, and instead place a legal barrier that prevents big, polluting countries to provide finance for Loss and Damage.

------------------------ The Cancun, Mexico, climate summit had barely begun when the topic du jour became how much «climate debt» the developed world «owes» developing countries for emitting carbon dioxide.

And our climate debt - to - income ratio is dangerously high.

The United States wants to play down the importance of this climate debt and force emerging countries in particular to do their part.