GAZA WAR HIGHLIGHTED BY CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

As Climate activists highlight the bloodshed in Gaza, they challenge Global superpowers to pay climate debt instead of funding the war.

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00:002024 is set to be the warmest year on record. The Climate Action Network

00:05convenes its meeting on day one of the world's largest climate conference COP

00:1029 being held in Baku, Azerbaijan. This is a finance cop where it's all about the

00:18numbers. There are a few important numbers that we need to keep top of mind

00:26while we are here. Let's start. It is 404 days of a genocide in Gaza. The crisis in

00:40Gaza took center stage and the over 19 billion US dollars paid in military

00:46support by Western governments to Israel. Over 43,000 dead in Gaza, 70% are women

00:59and children. Age 5 to 9 is the single biggest age category killed in Gaza.

01:13There have been over 3,000 killed in Lebanon since October. 85,000 tons of

01:25bombs and explosives dropped in Gaza since October last year. That is as they

01:34say five times higher than Hiroshima. And if monies can be found to fund war what

01:42about the climate debt the global north owes the global south? The demand for

01:48that climate debt to be owed and paid up and we are asking for the down payment

01:58of a very large debt but a down payment of five trillion per annum. Five trillion.

02:06We know the debt is much larger than that but five trillion is what we're

02:14coming to demand and we will not leave this cop if the ambition level on the

02:23finance in the finance negotiations doesn't match the scale. It can no longer

02:29be about the 100 billion dollar goal set 15 years ago in Copenhagen. Because this

02:36100 billion goal is meaningless. Far from being enough to answer the needs of

02:40developing countries. It was a political agreement taken at the very last minute

02:44of the last stretch of the negotiation and it's not anchored in science nor

02:48reality. Climate Action Network says Baku has to hold the turnaround. The Paris

02:54agreement set out in 2016 aims to limit global temperature rise by 1.5 degrees

03:00Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Studies show the global average

03:05temperature has increased by one degree since the pre-industrial period. A two

03:11degree Celsius warming scientists say would spell catastrophic climate points

03:16of no return. Urvashi Tewari, Rückenrein TV 6 News.