Adviser says European nations are sourcing fossil fuels abroad but failing to help developing countries
Some EU member states, including Germany, are making plans to expand imports of fossil fuels to replace the vast quantities of gas Europe currently buys from Russia, which is fuelling the war machine of Vladimir Putin.
Rachel Rose Jackson, a director of climate research and policy at Corporate Accountability, pointed out this was the 30th anniversary of the signing of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change . “Thirty years on, global north countries are still dangerously addicted to fossil fuels. While pontificating about ‘keeping 1.5 alive’ , they are failing on a monumental scale to decrease their own fossil fuel use.
Developing countries at Bonn voiced concern that wealthy countries had been slow to propose commitments on “loss and damage”, the term for the impacts of the climate crisis that are too severe to be adapted to. They want a funding mechanism to help their societies and economies to recover but so far there has been little progress on the issue.