The chapter explores the global climate crisis and the pressing need for accountability and reparations from industrialists and manufacturers for their role in exacerbating greenhouse gas emissions. Discussions center around the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, the challenges faced in implementing climate reparations, and the importance of viewing reparations as a matter of rights rather than charity to secure a sustainable future for all.
Reparations provide legal rights.
So argues lawyer and humanitarian, Esther Afolaranmi. Esther is the founder of the Golden Love and Hands of Hope Foundation in Nigeria, working on women’s liberation, girls’ education and lobbying the UN to meet the climate pledges promised at COP meetings. Esther joins me to discuss the links between climate, family planning, social justice and explains the corruption in Nigeria preventing the country from moving past the legacies of extraction and colonialism.
Esther explains that climate reparations are not about money, but about granting equal legal rights to the world’s most vulnerable communities. She also says that as long as unethical leaders break the promises made at climate conferences, those communities will be forced to take more desperate action to secure their futures.
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