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Mother Earth and to life. The problem of climate crisis will not be solved
with political declarations, but with specific commitments.
We will not pay the climate debt of developed countries to
developing countries. They, developed countries, must fulfill their
responsibility. While some developed countries do their best to avoid their
commitments to solve the climate crisis, developing countries are making
greater efforts to reduce emissions, and paying the price of a climate crisis
and that everyday leaves droughts, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, etc.
The climate crisis leaves us poorer, deprives us of food, destroys our
economy, creates insecurity, and creates migration. Climate change will
make the poor poorer. Poor and developing countries have a great
challenge: the eradication of poverty. And we’ll have to face a climate
crisis for which we are not guilty.
In addition to adapting to climate change we must ensure security,
education, health, energy for the population, provision of water and
sanitation services, delivery communication and infrastructure services,
job creation, provision of housing, reconstruction due to loss and damage
caused by extreme weather events, adaptation actions, among others.
Mr. President, We denounce to the whole world the pressure from
some countries for the approval of new carbon market mechanisms,
although these have shown to be ineffective in the fight against climate
change, and that only represent business opportunities. This is a climate
change conference, not a conference for carbon business. We did not come
here to do business with the death of Mother Earth betting on the power of
markets as a solution. We are here to protect our Mother Earth, we came
here to protect the future of humanity.
Yesterday forests were turned into carbon markets businesses, and the
same was done with the land, they tried to oceans and, worse, to
agriculture. Agriculture is food security, employment, life, and culture.
Agriculture is along with the land, mountains and forests, the house and
the food of our indigenous and peasant communities.
We will not allow the replacement of the obligations of developed
countries with carbon markets. The planet is not for sale, nor our life.