Justice
to climate finance and accountability for now and tomorrow to combat climate
crisis has a major role to play. What we are saying in this opinion for social
change, is just like the UN Sectary General Antonio Guterres recent call for
concern decrying illicit practices, insufficient and lukewarm attitudes toward
the fight against climate change.
Fellow
audiences, dear fervent readers of “Climate Bulletin” our weekly ANNOUNCER,
this analysis is influenced or motivated by Guterres last Climate media outing a
week ago and what this climate media Expert and ambassador has witnessed so far
in the crusade and campaigns against climate change.
What
we are saying is that “let what happened to finances meant to redress world
common call for concern in the past not happen to climate funds and should not
be swallowed by funny seminars and misdirected by the very same persons in
“World governing Bodies” in charge of managing finances.
Funds
and finance for climate ventures and initiatives must reach the grassroots and
must be handled and managed by community based organizations and not chauffeur
driven experts who in their usual style have learned to convince hierarchy
while they dabble with funds meant for meaningful actions on the ground,
questioning the credibility and authenticity of actors on the ground offering
selfless and loyal service to nature without any recourse.
The
advent of global warming and scientific evolution has caused and called for
several summits whose outcome has remained on papers and has taken mankind to no
where, knowing very well that we are directly affected and are the cause factor.
A lot,
why not too much bad fate is going on in the management of emergency crisis
around the world. Why because of subjective approach and poor management style of
finance.
It
is on records and many are aware of all the resolutions of all the (COPs) I
mean climate summits which has taken place around the world plus the Paris
agreement on climate mitigation and compensation which has yielded no
meaningful fruits today.
Let
us be honest to ourselves, COPs set and discuss their agenda not with parties
directly concerned but with persons out to defend individual interest in a
common call for concern sessions.
Records
must be set straight and finances channeled to the right quarters to get
meaningful results. It is not for nothing of late that Africans are asking for
compensation or should be compensated to redress the situation because they
have a very instrumental role to play.
Yet,
some westerners and diabolic Africans in high offices who believe more in their
pockets take delight or advantage in playing with words, policies and
resolutions for selfish interest.
What
I am saying, should not be miss quoted, or misconstrued a clear cut statement on
accounts must be made, a budget stated and disbursed without strings attached
for work to be carried out by the grassroot effectively.
Conferences,
seminars and summits have sucked and drained a lot of budgets meant for
emergency actions and interventions.
That
you and I know and it is most solicited as a step forward by “agents” in those
big offices who feed fat out of the programs.
Time
for practical and realistic actions is now and thank God it has come to the
notice of the Sectary General of the United Nations who has vowed to no longer
take it lying down. The time for total overhauling to redefine climate actions is
now.
It
should not only end as empty threats but must go beyond normal sanctions and
penalties to arrest of organizations and parties toiling around with Climate
funds and finances.
Climate
reality entails tree planting, nature based solutions and biodiversity
conservation not literature and
sensational approach by crocks handling climate finances.
Budget
misappropriation, mismanagement, deviation and embezzlement is what has slowed
world emergency actions and efforts. This should not be allowed in the climate
situation or predicament we are finding ourselves today.
Too
much “grammar” is posing as a major threat or challenge to the commoner who is there
carry out the tree planting exercise or solution action. Give the resources and
wait for the results, a peasant Farmer is naturally honest and judicious in manage
his or her resources meant for farming where he or she earns her living.
Join
me sing the chorus as we add our voice to that of the UN Sectary General Simon
Guetterres call on actors and nation to be accountable on climate finances
management and judicious actions to combat climate change.
It’s
high time pretenders pretending to be fixers in the house of world governing
Bodies for emergency to be send packing for enlightened, reliable and honest
ones to take over.
Time
has proven and disproven those currently handling management. I stand to be
disproven if the UN Sectary General did not come out hitting hard on the
subject matter.
Only
a genuine and sincere summits is the only way out of climate crisis supported
by frank actions and honest efforts by reliable agents and agencies.
Hear the
UN Sectary General Antonio Guetterres lamenting “I am very worried about where the world stands on
climate. Countries are far off track in meeting climate promises and
commitments. I see a lack of ambition. A lack of trust. A
lack of support. A lack of cooperation. And an abundance of problems
around clarity and credibility.
The climate
agenda is being undermined. At a time when we should be accelerating
action, there is backtracking. At a time when we should be filling gaps,
those gaps are growing.
Meanwhile, the
human rights of climate activists are being trampled. The most vulnerable
are suffering the most. Current policies are taking the world to a
2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century”.
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