The UN Climate Convention is in limbo
The UN body, mainly responsible for organizing the COPs on the climate, announces that it is canceling a whole series of events planned for this year, such as the Climate Weeks, which are nevertheless essential in holding the global debate on the response to climate change. climate change.
Every year, representatives of indigenous peoples travel to the climate conference here in Dubai on December 5 to try to win more protections for their populations. Apart from the COPs, Climate Weeks are other international meetings dedicated to the climate, financed by the UN Climate Convention (UNFCCC). © Géraud Bosman-Delzons/RFI
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There were four
Climate
Weeks in 2023: in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Panama and Malaysia. Nearly 30,000 participants in total, numerous workshops and conferences, heads of state, NGOs, activists and scientists gathered there and made major contributions as
COP28
loomed in December.
In 2024, there will be... zero. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is no longer sufficiently funded to organize them. Its resources guaranteed by the States only represent half of the sum it considers necessary to carry out all its increasingly numerous missions.
This cancellation is deeply regretted because these events constituted unique spaces to make the voices of farmers, community leaders, women and children heard, daily confronted with the consequences of global warming, all around the planet. Testimonies and demands which all too rarely find their place within the much more formal and diplomatic space that constitutes the COPs.
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