'If COP27 ends up a silent gathering, where no one risks speaking openly for fear of angering the COP presidency, then what future is it that will be being negotiated over?' asked 15 Nobel Literature Prize winners in a new letter.
"If COP27 ends up a silent gathering, where no one risks speaking openly for fear of angering the COP presidency, then what future is it that will be being negotiated over?" asked 15 Nobel Literature Prize winners in a new letter.
"Unless political freedoms are defended, there will be no meaningful climate action. Not in Egypt, nor anywhere else." "If the world's leaders gather in Egypt and leave without even a word about the most vulnerable, then what hope can they have?" they added."If COP27 ends up a silent gathering, where no one risks speaking openly for fear of angering the COP presidency, then what future is it that will be being negotiated over?"
last month,"the message activists should bring to the climate summit, whether they travel to Egypt or engage from afar, is simple: Unless political freedoms are defended, there will be no meaningful climate action. Not in Egypt, nor anywhere else. These issues are intertwined, as are our fates."that the continued imprisonment of Abd el-Fattah"will make a mockery of the climate talks.
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