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Climate Change Impacts

North must pay ecological debts to south

Rights leaders tell discussion

Staff Correspondent
Rights leaders at a panel discussion on Monday said the countries in the south are the creditors and the north must have to pay the ecological debts, as they are mainly responsible for global climate change, says a press release.
The southern countries are suffering from the global climate change impacts and the northern countries should compensate them for the ecological degradation, they added.
They said this at the discussion on ’Climate justice towards CoP 15 Copenhagen, ecological debts: We are the creditors' jointly arranged by EquityBD, Jubilee South (Philippines), Media Foundation for Trade and Development, SUPRO, Voice and Unnayan Onneshan at the National Press Club in the city.
The rights leaders said they would organise a countrywide awareness and mobilisation programme up to December 2009 in line with the confer-
ence of parties (CoP) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark
Director Dr Sarba Raj Khdaka of LDC Watch, an international civil society organisation based in Nepal, mentioned that all the debts in the low-income countries accumulated as a part of neocolonial exploitation. All these are illegitimate and these should be cancelled.
Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South-APMDD, a regional network in the Philippines, referred the example of the Bolivian government which formally placed the demand of ecological debt to UNFCC in its Bonn conference in June.
The similar proposals also have been submitted by Venezuela, Paraguay, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, she added.
She said the north has exploited the rights of all human beings who have equal shares to the global commons which include ozone layer, air and on natural resources. These global commons should be utilised in equitable
and sustainable way. The north has exploited those and also created negative consequences like present climate crisis.
Se called on all to build up political constituencies o transform this unjust global and local social system to a system based on equity and justice.
Presenting a keynote paper, Sayed Aminul Haque of EquityBD said during colonial period, its master Britain repatriated resources from the Indian subcontinent and increased their gross national product (GNP).
Mohiuddin Ahmed moderated the programme where Uma Chowdhury, Iqbal Ahmed, Ahmed Swapan, AHM Bazlur Rahman, Faruque Ahmed, Shamsud Doha, Dr Pias Karim, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury spoke on the historical aspects and contemporary movements on ecological debts in different countries, especially in the South American countries.