The event organisers, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland in conjunction with the Scottish government, have produced a communique on inclusion of voices from the global south in COP26.
“Look around the room – who here is part of that 10 per cent?” he said. “The richest 10 per cent of the world was responsible for half of all emissions over the past 25 years. “If it wasn’t for this, who would hear our voices?” she asked the room.ĭr Dhananjayan simply asked the room to look around for a sense of how exclusionary this year’s COP was. He spoke alongside Margaret Masudio Eberu, a smallholder farmer from Uganda, who said voices of women like her had been forgotten in climate debates. In an event held in the COP26 UK pavilion on Tuesday, Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, CEO of Oxfam, said that he was seeing more participation from excluded groups than in previous years, but that “the people most dramatically affected by climate breakdown just don’t have their voice heard in nearly as great a proportion as they need to be.” Here comes a short thread with context /9IhZIiWz0X- Sébastien Duyck 🌍⚖️ November 2, 2021 Even first days of Copenhagen compare better. Observers are barred for now from any access to entire negotiating area despite so many reassurances from and Sec. #COP26 is turning into most exclusive COP over the past decade. Last week, elders from the Indigenous alliance of the Americas, Minga Indigena, were forced to request an audience with the Scottish parliament after struggling to find affordable accommodation for their delegates.Īnd following a pledge from world leaders on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, Helen Magata of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change told The Big Issue: “We cannot really end deforestation without looking at human rights and indigenous people’s rights. “Women, young people, vulnerable people who are most affected by climate impacts are not represented at platforms like COP26.”Įven for those who’ve made it to the conference in person, full participation has been fraught with yet more complications and barriers. “They’ll come back home and they’ll sign more authorisations to cut more trees down. She fears that without participation from civil society at the conference, Sierra Leone’s leaders won’t feel pressure to commit to climate targets. “Our leaders have to be held accountable ”, says Diaka.
The group says the Islands’ perilous situation was “ignored” by other leaders in the run-up to COP, and now fears the event itself “will be neither inclusive nor ambitious due to the exclusion of Pacific Island voices”. Diaka Koroma has advocated against harmful practices like female genital mutilation and forced marriage in her home country.
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