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Climate justice is important because climate change is the most unjust problem there is.
I mean, there has never been a situation in which there has been so much injustice created by a global problem.
It's caused by the richest people in the world, because of their consumption,
because of their luxury lifestyles, because of their wealth.
They are destroying the environment, the livelyhood and the lives of the poorest people in the world.
And, you see it through all sectors, the poorest people, including indigenous people,
who themselves contribute least to climate change are the main victims.
Women, relatively contribute less to climate change, relatively are much bigger victims.
So it's just so unfair and that's why justice has to be at the heart of this whole issue.
Some do, of course especially representatives of poor countries, because they are the main victims and they contribute least.
Countries in Africa, especially countries in the pacific. Sometimes their entire country might be gone in fourty years.
We've been saying for a country like Tuvalu, it's like throwing a nuclear bomb on them.
The only difference is that now they know, their entire country will disappear in fourty years.
So, they do know that this is about justice and they do strive for a just regime.
Regretfully, we have the impression that northern countries are basically just trying to defend their interests,
the economic interests in whole negotiating process, and are trying to make all kinds of complicated tricks,
to do as little as possible.
Whether it's riddiculous ways of trying to count for emmissions from forestry,
to trying to open these carbon markets even though everyone knows,
that these carbon markets do not contribute anything to mitigating climate change,
to closing their eyes when beeing told that a lot of these carbon offset projects are not worth anything,
not the paper they are written on. And that's just ignored because for them it's just a way to cheaply pretend they're doing
something while they're not doing anything.
The reason why this whole negotiating process is going so bad is very much because,
the environmental movement has been taken over by mainstream politicians.
The environmental movement used to be dominated by progressive people.
People that strived for juste, rightsbased solutions to environmental problems.
But, the environment has become a very popular subject. All kinds of industries, you know Shell,
has an environment program now. And what they're trying to do is just to sell "green" oil.
To pretend that they protect the environment, and just try to do business-as-usual.
So we get all these greenwash efforts, but you also get, especially these kinds of companies,
are very interested in false solutions, like carbon trade, like especially bio-energy.
Which of course is a nonsense strategy, because if you start at a large scale, burning up forests to protect the climate,
everybody know that it doesn't make sense. I mean, you can extract a little bit of fuel wood from a forest,
but if you do to much of it you will destroy the forest. But still for them it's very beneficial because,
they can maintain the car industry, and governments doesn't have to invest so much in public transport.
So because of the involvment of these big industries, because of the involvment of rightwing politicians,
that love marketbased approaches, love creating more markets, more money,
the whole negotiations have become one big game of fraud.
First of all I think people here in Sweden should very clearly denounce them.
Very clearly say that they don't want false solutions. That they only want real solutions.
The real solutions are basically here, they are very simple. Most of the energy on this planet is coming,
directly or indireclty from the sun. So solar energy is an obvious solution.
It's a bit more expensive but I mean, having destroyed so much of the planet
I think the north should at least cough up the money now to invest in a real solution.
Forest restoration is a very clear solution, that has so much benefits for so many people,
Real forest restoration, native forest restoration. I mean there is massive opportunity in countries,
like Sweden to indeed restore forests all over the country and that is a very environmentally sound,
and socially sound policy to indeed contribute to climate change mitigation.
But of course big industries don't make a lot of money of it, and that is the thing we should denounce;
that climate change mitigation is not just a game to make sure that big industries can make more money,
but it should really be a public responsibility, where governments take responsibility to have,
proper governance of what is in the end our common.