Maduro accuses capitalism of global climate crisis during intervention at COP27

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused capitalism of the global climate crisis. The president explained that his country is currently suffering from the effects of climate change, caused by this imbalance in the world’s main capitalist economies.

“The Venezuelan people must pay the consequences of an imbalance caused by the world’s main capitalist economies, who have polluted and continue to pollute the planet for the benefit of a few,” Maduro said during his speech at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27 ) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Maduro assured that the imbalance and the environmental crisis are comparable to the conditions of inequality that developed countries have promoted.

“The abysmal inequality between the first world countries compared to the rest, has increased and deepened in recent decades at the same pace of environmental destruction, there is a correlation between the environmental crisis and the crisis of inequality that generates poverty in the world” Maduro emphasized.

Likewise, the president ruled that Venezuela today suffers the effects of climate change, caused by this imbalance of the main capitalist economies of the world.

THE PROTECTION OF THE AMAZON

The president of Venezuela advocated for the protection of the Amazon during his speech at COP27.

“As a sovereign country, we advocate for the protection of the Amazon, we come from a meeting with the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro, with the president of Suriname [Chan Santokhi] and with the South American social movements to assume responsibilities as an inhabitant of South America in the salvation of the jungle and the biodiversity of the Amazon,” he declared.

Maduro condemned the irreparable damage to humanity in the Amazon, saying that the original peoples must teach how to save nature.

“Millenniums of existence have left an irreparable mark on the Amazon. It is the native peoples who must teach us how to save and how to live with nature,” he said.

In addition, Nicolás Maduro requested the realization without delay of the Climate Loss and Damage Financing Fund.

“It is necessary to specify without delay or bureaucratic artifice the Climate Loss and Damage Financing Fund that we have been talking about a few years ago in previous summits, on this proposal that cannot be postponed we must work down to the last detail, refining the mechanisms so that the financial assistance is of direct, fair, timely and expeditious manner,” Maduro said.

PROTECTING VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Designing a specific agenda to protect vulnerable populations in the face of the climate crisis, was the request of the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.

“It is necessary at this summit to reach action agreements, real and effective action, but also to design a specific agenda to protect the vulnerable populations of the planet, humanity cannot remain an orphan,” said the president.

Maduro stated that humanity cannot remain an orphan, for which he advocated fair and expeditious financial aid, so that it reaches the most affected populations.

“Any agreement reached today must attack the problem at the root and give priority to the most vulnerable on the planet,” he commented.

Since November 6, world leaders have participated in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change with the aim of establishing proposals for mitigating the effects of climate change.

The COP27 takes place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, 500 kilometers southeast of the capital, Cairo.

The meeting seeks to harmonize global efforts in environmental matters, through the negotiation, planning and implementation of agreements and common policies, contemplating the participation of world leaders in different thematic tables per day.

With information from Sputnik

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