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A photograph taken from the air of a sinking refugee dinghy in the central Mediterranean
[Ruben Neugebauer/Sea Watch]
WORLD leaders attending Cop27 were urged on the final day of the summit to act now to create safe routes for refugees fleeing climate breakdown.
In a joint statement today, British refugee and migrant rights groups stressed that the issue of climate refugees must be included in negotiations during the summit in Egypt.
“As organisations that work with people on the front lines of climate breakdown, we know first-hand that for many, migration is already a survival strategy,” the statement, signed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, UK City of Sanctuary and Migrants Organise says.
The government’s new immigration proposal risks creating a society where rights are earned, not guaranteed, warn feminist groups Project Resist and FiLiA in a joint statement
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA