CVF countries are climate vulnerable, but not victims: Nasheed
8 އޮކްޓޯބަރު 2020 | ބުރާސްފަތި 09:32The former president this at a CFV event held on the sidelines of UNGA, on Wednesday evening
(File photo) Former President Mohamed Nasheed has often been described a champion of climate
Member countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) are climate vulnerable, but not victims, says Maldives parliament speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed.
Nasheed, CVF’s Thematic Ambassador for Ambition, made the statement during a leader’s ‘Midnight Climate Survival’ conference held virtually on Wednesday evening, on the sidelines of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Noting that recent research have shown the one percent of the world’s top income earners “have produced twice as much carbon emission as the bottom 50 percent in the past two decades,” the former president stressed that CVF member countries “have not caused the problem”.
He noted that these plans “will aim to deliver the economic growth and prosperity that the CVF countries rightfully demand, to eliminate poverty entirely and allow today's least developed countries to reach middle income status by 2035-40”.
Highlighting that CVF may be climate vulnerable, Nasheed stated that they are not victims, rather leaders, and that as its Ambition Ambassador he will “take [the] climate prosperity plans to form a nucleus of a high ambition coalition that also include the biggest and most powerful nations”.
Nasheed further stressed that they “cannot let this crucial climate deadline slip”, adding that “if we are unable to fix the climate issues that would become the biggest national security threat for our region in the next few decades to come”.
