Greenpeace calls for sustainable agriculture that works with the land rather than against it, which avoids degradation. Greenpeace works in the forests — including with indigenous peoples — to show that development is possible without deforestation and degradation. Also without proper governance — land use planning — and regulations and law enforcement, the problem of desertification cannot be addressed properly.
At international conferences on the environment, African delegates often raise the need for financial support to help them adapt and change. Do you see this happening? Social and environmental protection needs additional money, and it is high time governments provide it. Developed countries have indeed broken many aid promises.
That is shameful, especially when you consider how much money they could easily find when they decided they needed to bail out their greedy banks. The tragedy about this whole issue for somebody like me — coming from Africa — is that the people who are least responsible for climate chaos are the ones who are paying the first and the most brutal price. Climate change in Africa is contributing to the creation of more deserts, starvation and water scarcity. Our continent needs to take leadership in the international negotiations, nationally and regionally.
Today governance gaps created by globalization provide a permissive environment for wrongful acts by companies. At Rio , governments must agree to the development of a global instrument that ensures full liability for any social or environmental damage that global corporations cause.
African governments should also call for creating strong regulation and control of financial markets and introducing restrictions on speculators and speculative products to stop harmful practices that lead to rising resource and commodity prices and an accelerated depletion of natural resources, with dramatic consequences for poor people and small economies.
The answer is simple: They then will be admitting that governments and political leaders are sleep-walking us into a crisis of epic proportions, putting the future and lives of our children and grandchildren in jeopardy and great danger. Many citizens in the world, especially young people — I know my own daughter feels this way — are completely disgusted by how governments lack the political will to establish a solid, time-bound process to address the biggest threat our planet faces.
A true revolution can only start when governments start listening to the people and not to the polluters.
The power of the people can no longer be undermined. What our brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East have done is a clear example of that. Based on what history has taught us, at the end of the day it is up to the voices of thoughtful, concerned citizens to stand up and resist the lack of action. The recent events not only in North Africa but also across the continent have shown the power of people.
We need to go beyond the solo approach and work together and lend our voices across all sectors: environmental, human rights, health, education, etc. Only our collective voice will be heard.
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