Thread by @DebtforClimate

1/12: YOUR GREED, OUR #DEATH: #ClimateDebt is killing us!
📢“We as a country and as a region did not start this war against nature. We did not provoke it. The war has come to us.” #DebtForClimate
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2/12: The richest tenth is responsible for almost half of all carbon emissions…
… ‼️Whereas the poorest half are only responsible for a tenth of #emissions.
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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3/12: The average #carbonfootprint of someone from the richest 1% of #humanity is 80 times the size of someone from the poorest half.
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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4/12: If we share the 1.5 ºC carbon budget between everyone and count any excess consumption as a contribution to #climate breakdown, then we find that the #GlobalNorth is historically responsible for 92% of climate breakdown.
doi.org/10.1016/S2542-…
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5/12: If we do the same calculation for material #consumption – the main driver of #ecological breakdown – we find that the #GlobalNorth is responsible for three-quarters of #unsustainable consumption.
doi.org/10.1016/S2542-…
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6/12: Although climate breakdown is overwhelmingly caused by the Global North, the impacts are hitting the #South far harder.
In fact, by 2000 the damage rich countries’ #emissions caused to low-income countries (LICs) was already greater than LICs’ current foreign #debt.
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7/12: The recent floods in #Pakistan caused over $30 billion of damage, plus devastating loss of lives & livelihoods. But Pakistan is meant to pay $12.5 billion in debt this year
Who really owes who?
#PakistanIsOurStory
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/08/pakist…
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8/12: Countries in the Horn of #Africa are simultaneously facing #DebtCrises & mass #starvation due to climate breakdown.

Who really owes who here? #DebtForClimate

aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/7/…
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9/12: The Global North continues to drain resources from the #GlobalSouth. Whether you look at land, materials, energy, or human time, the North takes far more than it gives back. This is #ECOLOGICALDEBT #DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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10/12: This ecological debt is worth over $10 trillion a year. That’s 30 times the aid that the North “gives” the South, and enough to end extreme poverty 70 times.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima #DettePourLeClimat
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11/12: In #LatinAmerica, this drain of materials has grown so much that more materials left the region in the past 3 years than over 3 centuries of #colonial rule. The #ecologicaldebt now owed to Latin America is overwhelming! #DeudaXClima
doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

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12/12: Rich countries of the Global North must cancel all Global South debt. This is the essential first step towards the North recognizing their immense #climate & #ecological #debt.
Join #DebtForClimate now! debtforclimate.org