Rome: Some of the world’s smallest countries could “disappear” without action at an upcoming UN summit to halt climate change. commonwealth warned in an interview on Wednesday.
“The threat to the 42 small states in existence,” Baroness Patricia Scotland told AFP. “People say that as if it doesn’t mean what it says – namely that these little states will disappear.”
Dominica-born lawyer and former British government minister who leads commonwealth federation of former countries of the British Empire, speaking during a visit to Rome that included talks with the Pope Francis.
He said that some of the smallest members of the Commonwealth, such as people of the lower ranks pacific island of Tuvalu and Nauru, “were looking for new places” because “the sea level rise is now too dangerous”.
She also cried out the devastating impact of more frequent storms, including in her native country.
“Dominica Usually looks like the Garden of Eden,” she said. But after 2017’s Hurricane Maria “the trees were stripped of even the bark, not a single green leaf was left. it was like armageddon“.
UN climate talks in the Scottish city of Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November aim to secure a global deal to decarbonize world economies and turn humanity’s way away from catastrophic global warming.
Scotland insisted that humanity had “no choice” but to act, noting that even the poorest countries most exposed to climate change need extensive debt and vaccine relief.
“We’re all in the same storm, but we’re definitely not in the same boat,” she said.
The Commonwealth brings together 54 countries and 2.6 billion people, and the Baroness is its first female leader.
His term was due to end in 2010, but the decision to re-appoint or replace him has been postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I certainly still have a lot of work to do that I would still very much expect to be in my position, but that’s a matter for member states to decide,” she said.
“The threat to the 42 small states in existence,” Baroness Patricia Scotland told AFP. “People say that as if it doesn’t mean what it says – namely that these little states will disappear.”
Dominica-born lawyer and former British government minister who leads commonwealth federation of former countries of the British Empire, speaking during a visit to Rome that included talks with the Pope Francis.
He said that some of the smallest members of the Commonwealth, such as people of the lower ranks pacific island of Tuvalu and Nauru, “were looking for new places” because “the sea level rise is now too dangerous”.
She also cried out the devastating impact of more frequent storms, including in her native country.
“Dominica Usually looks like the Garden of Eden,” she said. But after 2017’s Hurricane Maria “the trees were stripped of even the bark, not a single green leaf was left. it was like armageddon“.
UN climate talks in the Scottish city of Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November aim to secure a global deal to decarbonize world economies and turn humanity’s way away from catastrophic global warming.
Scotland insisted that humanity had “no choice” but to act, noting that even the poorest countries most exposed to climate change need extensive debt and vaccine relief.
“We’re all in the same storm, but we’re definitely not in the same boat,” she said.
The Commonwealth brings together 54 countries and 2.6 billion people, and the Baroness is its first female leader.
His term was due to end in 2010, but the decision to re-appoint or replace him has been postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I certainly still have a lot of work to do that I would still very much expect to be in my position, but that’s a matter for member states to decide,” she said.
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