Canadians say it's time for real, actionable decisions to be made about the future of the environment, ahead of the Conference of Parties (COP) climate conference from Nov. 6 to 18, also known as COP27.
View of a COP27 sign on the road leading to the conference area in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh town as the city prepares to host the COP27 summit next month, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Sayed SheashaCanadians say it's time for real, actionable decisions to be made about the future of the environment, ahead of the global conference on climate change.
We need to be advancing climate justice solutions, not false solutions wrapped up in carbon markets that allow big polluters to continue to buy their way out while they continue to pollute, or for corporations to continue to collect massive amounts of economic power while disempowering some of the poorest people and some of the people that are protecting critical biodiversity, which is Indigenous peoples.
But I think further to that, I just really want to see some real climate action come out of this. As a worker who has experience in oil and gas, I think it's really important to see jobs come out of this for workers, as well as reparations being made for the communities that have been most hit by climate change.Bashar Rahman worries about his father who lives in a part of Bangladesh that may someday be underwater.
So it's very frustrating to see policies that make some of these lands go underwater. So one thing that I am very optimistic [for], despite all of these circumstances, is if I see people acknowledging issues, particularly the Global South.
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