The global north is currently extracting $2 trillion annually from the global south, a number which far outstrips the annual $100 billion in climate finance promised by the global north at Copenhagen’s COP in 2009. OECD countries have fallen short on that paltry promise of funds every year.
“Simply, the global south must be liberated. Not only do these countries deserve the sovereignty to establish their own national futures, the climate crisis is so urgent and catastrophic that we need all hands on deck to figure it out.”