Patrick Bond Advocates Compensation for Victims of Climate Change
Fresh from the disappointing denouement of COP17, Patrick Bond, author of Politics of Climate Justice, says that the victims of climate change ought to be compensated.
In an article co-written with Michael Dorsey for Pambazuka News, Bond says that the Kyoto Protocol’s one possible vehicle of compensation, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), is “dangerously dysfunctional”:
Africa is being cooked by climate change, and those causing the crisis should compensate the victims. This is probably the only hope for any top-down action at the Durban COP17 this week, with the Green Climate Fund design committee co-chaired by Trevor Manuel now searching for the US$100 billion promised by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Copenhagen two years ago.
One dangerously dysfunctional vehicle for delivering money to Africa is the Clean Development Mechanism, the CDM, which was included in the Kyoto Protocol as a way for Third World projects to get resources. But it isn’t delivering the goods, for a variety of reasons that mean Durban should host a rethink.
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- Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below by Patrick Bond
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EAN: 9781869142216
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- Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society edited by Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion
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