Chad climate disaster leaves record 2.1 million people hungry
Reuters, 13 Oct 2022
Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to United Nations agencies.
Caribbean Countries Will Be Seeking Climate Justice at COP27
Forbes, 12 Oct 2022
In November 2022, Caribbean small island leaders will travel some 10,000 kilometers to lobby for their economic rights before diplomats and dignitaries from more than 200 countries, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt. As representatives of some of the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change, regional heads of state will request “Loss and Damage” (L&D) funding to help pay for what has become an out-of-control climate-related debt crisis.
Africa: Response to climate crisis doesn’t match ‘magnitude of the challenge’
UN News, 12 Oct 2022
African States are on the front line of the climate crisis, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, but far more action is needed to turn the tide on rising emissions, and reduce global warming.
UN relief chief appeals for concerted action to tackle deadly heatwave threat
UN News, 10 Oct 2022
Heatwaves already kill thousands of people every year and they risk overwhelming the world’s aid response, unless action is taken to mitigate climate change, the UN’s emergency relief chief said on Monday. Without immediate financial help for the most vulnerable communities, the world faces a future of “ever larger and deadlier heat disasters”, Martin Griffiths told journalists in Geneva.
Pakistan’s ‘climate carnage beyond imagination’, UN chief tells General Assembly
UN News, 07 Oct 2022
The people of Pakistan are the victims of “a grim calculus of climate injustice”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly on Friday, reminding that while the country was responsible for less than one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is paying a “supersized price for man-made climate change”.
Egypt urged to ensure civil society’s full participation in COP27 climate summit
UN News, 07 Oct 2022
Authorities in Egypt must ensure civil society can safely and fully participate in the COP27 UN climate change conference taking place there next month, a group of UN independent human rights experts said on Friday, expressing alarm over restrictions ahead of the summit.
