Thread by @fatenaggad

🧵 The re-writing of recent history by global north activists on the COP27 and its outcome is (to put it mildly) nauseating! It makes one question their independence and how much they're in touch with Global South voices they claim to care about. So to reclaim the space:

1. The 2 weeks in Sharm were a moment; a stop in a journey. The COP27 outcomes need to be evaluated based on the engagement of the actors through that journey! Ignoring that the US and the EU were telling us just a month ago that loss and damage won't happen and then reading...

...that they saved the day is genuinely dishonest and frankly insulting to the work many actors have done to exercise pressure.
2. The geopolitical context had an impact on COP27. From an African perspective (and I'm sure global south), it is the cherry on the cake to...

...hear a lot about the lack of delivery and no word on who is to blame! So let's say it: the historical polluters have failed us! We could have had a HUGE success had the pressure to deliver on pledges and add to them been duly put on them! Instead, we got empty rhetoric!

3. The cherry on the cake for many of us was hearing western leaders, one after one, repeating their "disappointment" for the "failure" to secure commitment to 1.5. So to be clear: they need to tell that to themselves, not lecture the global south! Refresh on emission increases:

UK: 9.2% increase in 2021
EU: 6.5% increase in 2021
USA: 6% increase in 2021
Africa as a CONTINENT (more than all the above populations combined): 6% increase in 2021
China - presumably their target (and not to defend it): 3.2%
Can we now re-focus?