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On 22 and 23 June 2023, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL will be present at the International Summit for a New Global Financial Deal to voice the needs of the most vulnerable in the face of climate change.
The countries that are currently suffering the most from climate change are those that have contributed the least to it and have the most limited means to prepare for its consequences.
Every day, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL’s teams witness the effects of climate change and the suffering it causes among the world’s most vulnerable populations. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Myanmar or Haiti, the situation is the same: year after year, the climate is spiraling out of control at an alarming rate.
When people cannot access fields or agricultural resources, men, women, and children face malnutrition and food insecurity. Due to droughts and flooding, Malian farmers are no longer able to meet the needs of their communities, causing the desertification of formerly inhabited areas. Climate change is also threatening access to and the quality of water. This is the case in Syria, where the Euphrates has never been so dry. In the Central African Republic, as in 42 other countries around the world, cholera, a devastating waterborne disease, is thriving because of rising temperatures and extreme rainfall.
Since humanitarian actors can take action in fragile, multi-faceted contexts, they are playing a growing role in responding to climate challenges. Strengthening the resilience of the most vulnerable communities to cope with the ravages of the climate is becoming a central component of our work. Efforts to adapt and prepare for risks are gradually permeating all our fields of activity, from access to water resources to the construction of temporary shelters, from agroecology techniques adapted to water constraints to the development of more sustainable livelihoods.
Let’s be clear, however: even with the best will in the world, humanitarian actors are struggling with much too limited resources, and their action is just a drop in the bucket in response to the immense challenges we face.
The International Summit for a New Global Financial Pact on June 22 and 23 must be a turning point
On June 22 and 23, France is organizing the “Summit for a New Global Financial Pact” in Paris. It will focus on the fight against excessive debt burdens and the mobilization of new financial resources for countries facing the climate crisis, soaring inequalities and declining biodiversity. If the summit meets its ambitions, it could mark a major turning point.
Changing the way that adaptation to global warming is funded is especially important—a matter of life or death—in the countries that are most exposed to climate change and have limited solvency.
It is our collective responsibility to ensure that the voices of these men and women are heard, as they face today’s spiraling thermometer, disrupted by global economic development that has always left them on the sidelines.