Wealthy countries must take responsibility for the people most injured by climate change, says Madeleine Diouf Sarr, chair of the Least Developed Countries Group on Climate Change
This year, thousands of people died and millions lost their homes in devastating floods in Bangladesh, Sudan and Pakistan. In East Africa, 50 million people are experiencing famine caused by the worst drought in 40 years. Around the world, at least half of the 59 million internal migrants in 2021 were displaced by the effects of climate change, according to the United Nations.
As the chair of the Least Developed Countries Group on Climate Change, I represent 46 nations that are home to nearly one billion people. This month, I will be among those calling on governments to establish a loss-and-damage fund for developing countries during COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Research estimates that US$290 billion to US$580 billion per year will be needed by 2030.
So where is the concrete support for the people and communities worst affected? Last year, at COP26 in Glasgow, UK, low- and middle-income countries jointly proposed a Loss and Damage Finance Facility. Wealthy countries rejected this, and instead offered a three-year ‘dialogue’. Talk does not feed the starving or shelter the homeless.
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