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Climate Change Impacts: North must pay ecological debts to south
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to south Rights leaders tell discussion Staff Correspondent
Rights leaders at a panel discussion on Monday said the
countries in the south are the creditors and the north must have to pay
the ecological debts, as they are mainly responsible for global climate
change, says a press release.The southern countries are suffering from
the global climate change impacts and the northern countries should
compensate them for the ecological degradation, they added.They said this at the discussion on 'Climate justice towards
CoP 15 Copenhagen, ecological debts: We are the creditors' jointly
arranged by EquityBD, Jubilee South (Philippines), Media Foundation for
Trade and Development, SUPRO, Voice and Unnayan Onneshan at the
National Press Club in the city.The rights leaders said they would
organise a countrywide awareness and mobilisation programme up to
December 2009 in line with the conference of parties (CoP) to be held
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Director Dr Sarba Raj Khdaka of LDC Watch, an international
civil society organisation based in Nepal, mentioned that all
the debts in the low-income countries accumulated as a part of
neo-colonial exploitation. All these are illegitimate and these should
be cancelled.Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South-APMDD, a regional network in
the Philippines,
referred the example of the Bolivian government which formally placed
the demand of ecological debt to UNFCC in its Bonn conference in June. The similar proposals also have been submitted by Venezuela, Paraguay, Malaysia
and Sri Lanka,
she added.She said the north has exploited the rights of all human
beings who have equal shares to the global commons which include ozone
layer, air and on natural resources. These global commons should be
utilised in equitable and sustainable way. The north has exploited
those and also created negative consequences like present climate
crisis. Se called on all to build up political constituencies o
transform this unjust global and local social system to a system based
on equity and justice.Presenting a keynote paper, Sayed Aminul Haque of
EquityBD said during colonial period, its master Britain repatriated
resources from the Indian subcontinent and increased their gross
national product (GNP). Mohiuddin Ahmed moderated the programme where Uma Chowdhury,
Iqbal Ahmed, Ahmed Swapan, AHM Bazlur Rahman, Faruque Ahmed, Shamsud
Doha, Dr Pias Karim, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury spoke on the historical
aspects and contemporary movements on ecological debts in different
countries, especially in the South American countries.
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