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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It is nothing short of shocking to learn that, despite the fact that the world is teetering dangerously on the precipice of a climate catastrophe with fatal consequences for small island states, some rich nations are lobbying against paying to help developing countries mitigate the effects of Climate Change.<\/p>

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The UN agency, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has produced a report which will be an important tool in the negotiations between nations at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, starting in a few days\u2019 time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0However, documents obtained by Greenpeace UK that was shown to the BBC, reveal that Switzerland and Australia particularly, are doubting parts of the IPCC report, which state that developing countries will require financial support from rich countries in order for them to achieve emission reduction targets.<\/p>

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The danger in the doubts expressed by Switzerland and Australia that seek to amend the IPCC report, is that other richer and greater polluting countries may try to hide behind them to reduce their own pledge to provide climate finance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These countries have already failed to meet their promise to contribute $100 billion per year by 2020.\u00a0\u00a0The later subject is not on the formal agenda of the Glasgow meeting, but small developing countries should raise it at every opportunity and under any pretext.<\/p>\n

Plans, to stop global temperatures rising more than 1.5\u00baC by the end of the century, must be presented at the Glasgow meeting by every country.\u00a0\u00a0But the plans are unlikely to be delivered.<\/p>

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Authoritative Studies by Greenpeace and other bodies show that to keep temperatures below the 1.5\u00baC limit, every country needs to stop all new fossil fuel projects immediately and stop burning coal altogether. Rich nations need to give extra financial support to poorer countries to do the same, and to help deal with the existing impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n

But the attitude shown by Switzerland and Australia, together with positions taken by Japan and the member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC) especially Saudi Arabia, to amend language pointing to the need for \u201curgent and accelerated\u201d action to reduce fossil fuels, pose real and deadly threats to small island states and countries with low-lying coastlands.<\/p>

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So, too, do attempts by representatives of Australia and India to water-down references in the IPCC report to the urgency of considerably reducing the production of coal, one of the biggest contributors to CO2 emissions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australia is a big exporter of coal, and India\u2019s representatives have made it clear that India will not reduce its coal production and use \u201cfor the next few decades\u201d because India needs coal to provide cheap electricity for domestic and industrial use.<\/p>

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All of this makes COP26 in Glasgow a truly decisive moment for small islands and countries with low-lying coastlands.\u00a0\u00a0This is the last decade the world has to avoid the worst impacts of global warming: unimaginable natural disasters, sea level rise, decimation of human habitats and drowning of small countries with ancient civilizations as in parts of the Pacific.\u00a0\u00a0Small states must speak up, and they should not be cajoled into accepting words as deeds or promises as fulfilment.<\/p>\n

There is a big hole in the COP26 agenda.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is a hole that will never be filled by the industrialized nations that are the biggest contributors to the adverse effects of Climate Change \u2013 it is the crucial matter of compensation for loss and damage.<\/p>\n

Over the last four decades, Climate Change and global warming have wreaked massive destruction on small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.\u00a0\u00a0The repeated disasters, especially more frequent and more powerful storms, and extended periods of drought followed by huge flooding, have retarded growth and development in the Caribbean and Pacific countries while burdening them with debt to rebuild and to install expensive and resilient infrastructure against future damage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The polluting countries that cause this grave injury are paying nothing in compensation.<\/p>\n

In June this year, a group of legal experts, co-chaired by British Professor Phillipe Sands QC, and Dior Fall Sow, a UN jurist and former prosecutor from Senegal, unveiled an initiative for a new criminal law, called \u2018Ecocide\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0Ecocide is defined as \u2018unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread long-term damage to the environment caused\u00a0by those acts\u201d.<\/p>\n

While the law would open the door for compensation from entities that cause ecological damage, Climate Change is not specifically mentioned in the draft law, and, in any event, while it is good and right that it has been drafted and is being promoted, its acceptance and enactment by the International Criminal Court would take years.\u00a0\u00a0In any event, several polluting nations including the United States, are not members of the Court.<\/p>\n

Therefore, small islands states and other countries that are the perpetual victims of Climate Change must devise new strategies for putting compensation for loss and damage on the global agenda and fighting for it.<\/p>\n

And, at COP26, representatives of small states should include compensation for loss and damage in every statement they make.\u00a0\u00a0The evidence of the damage over the last four decades is clear for all to see.\u00a0\u00a0So, too, is the refusal of polluting countries to address it.<\/p>\n

Small island states must use their advocacy to shame those who repeatedly damage with no effort to compensate and little effort to stop.\u00a0\u00a0Small states cannot go quietly into the dark night; they must rage against the dying of the light.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 It is nothing short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSmall states must rage at COP26 \u2013 it\u2019s the last chance saloon\u00a0 - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small states must rage at COP26 \u2013 it\u2019s the last chance saloon\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 It is nothing short […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-23T12:20:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"740\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"493\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Small states must rage at COP26 \u2013 it\u2019s the last chance saloon\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-23T12:20:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-23T12:20:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\"},\"wordCount\":983,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:740\/h:493\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-must-rage-at-cop26-its-the-last-chance-saloon\/\",\"name\":\"Small states must rage at COP26 \u2013 it\u2019s the last chance saloon\u00a0 - 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