The global North want to ignore historical emissions & allow their citizens to carry on emitting & prevent African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. “It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered disposables“.

“I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace.” He called for “One Africa, One degree” & “Two degrees is suicide”. It was clear then that rich country govts & big NGOs were more than happy to sacrifice the global South. 4/

Now despite the science, the urgency, the devastating impacts we are told that 2030 targets are radical & we should be pragmatic. Anti-racists & #climate justice activists should not accept ‘channeling the people of the global South into the furnace’ by supporting net zero 2050

In 2009 global South countries were calling for cuts of 80% by 2030 by rich countries & to pay their climate debt because even then the IPCC said 2c globally means 3.5c across every region of Africa. Since then the science is even clearer that preventing a breach of 1.5c is key

Today the UK is 16th highest global emitter, 6th highest historically, responsible for 3.5% of global emissions. Just to meet it’s fairshare of emissions cuts for the 1.5c budget - it would be -200% by 2030 so it would need to be at zero by 2030 & transfer £1 trillion to the poor