The longer we delay climate action, the worse it will be.
arlier this year, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan stood up at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin and told ministers, fossil fuels are a “gift from the gods.” Having oil and gas deposits is “not our fault” he went on, laying out further plans to increase natural gas production by more than a third.
As U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has repeatedly said, any new investment in fossil fuels would be “economic and moral madness.” In Sub-Saharan Africa, we are on the front lines of the crisis every day, through no fault of our own. Polluters must pay. Climate-fuelled conflict has triggered greater population displacement, which leads to more demand for food in places where there is already a shortage. So we say this to leaders: stop investing in fossil fuels, stop digging up and burning fossil fuels, and stop forcing fossil fuels back into the ground where we grow the food that sustains us. If we decarbonise the economy, powerful countries will have fewer reasons to send their militaries halfway around the world to secure the flow of oil.
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