Taxes should be imposed on Companies ορυκτών καυσίμων και τα χρήματα να μοιραστούν σε ευάλωτα έθνη που υφίστανται προβλήματα από την κλιματική κρίση, προέτρεψε ο γενικός γραμματέας των Ηνωμένων Εθνών. Ο Guardian he says:
Ο Antonio Guterres ανέφερε ότι “όσοι ρυπαίνουν θα πρέπει να πληρώσουν” για την ζημιά που προκαλείται από τους καύσωνες, τις πλημμύρες, την ξηρασία και άλλες κλιματικές επιπτώσεις. Ανέφερε μάλιστα ότι ήρθε “η ώρα να ειδοποιηθούν οι παραγωγοί ορυκτών καυσίμων, οι επενδυτές και οι υπεύθυνοι”.
"Today, I call on all developed economies to tax the profits of fossil fuel companies," Guterres said in a speech to the UN general assembly on Tuesday. “These funds should be redirected in two ways – to countries suffering loss and damage caused by the climate crisis and to people struggling with rising food prices and energy".
Guterres' appeal came in his most urgent speech yet on the state of the planet and the will of governments to change course. His first words were: "Our world is in big trouble."
"Let us have no illusions. We are in rough seas. A winter of global discontent is on the horizon, a cost-of-living crisis is raging, trust is collapsing, inequalities are exploding and our planet is burning," he told the assembly.
“We have a duty to act and yet we are stuck with a colossal global dysfunction. The international community is not ready or willing to face the great dramatic challenges of our time.”
Σύμφωνα με την πρόταση του Antonio Guterres, τα έσοδα από τους φόρους θα διοχετευτούν στις κυρίως αναπτυσσόμενες χώρες που υφίστανται “απώλειες και ζημιές” από την παγκόσμια θέρμανση, και θα επενδύονται σε συστήματα έγκαιρης προειδοποίησης από καταστροφές και άλλες πρωτοβουλίες για την οικοδόμηση ανθεκτικότητας. Οι ευάλωτες χώρες είναι έτοιμες να αξιοποιήσουν την εβδteam της γενικής συνέλευσης του ΟΗΕ για να ζητήσουν από τα πλούσια έθνη έναν παγκόσμιο φόρο “για το κλίμα με βάση τη δικαιοσύνη”.
His speech on Tuesday was particularly poignant, delivered at the general assembly's big event following the secretary-general's recent visit to Pakistan, where floods from a monsoon have submerged a third of the country and displaced millions of people.
Governments must break their addiction to fossil fuels, Guterres said, targeting not just the mining companies themselves but the entire business infrastructure that supports them. "This includes banks, private equity funds, asset managers and other financial institutions that continue to invest in and underwrite carbon pollution," the secretary-general said.
“Also included are public relations with the billions that protect the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny. Just as the tobacco industry did decades ago, lobbyists and spin doctors have spewed harmful misinformation. Fossil fuel interests should spend less time on public relations and more on averting a planetary disaster." Antonio Guterres said it is "time to move beyond the endless debates" and give funding to vulnerable countries. For rich nations it said they should double adaptation funding by 2025, as they promised to do at UN climate talks in Scotland last year.
