ROMA: Some of the smallest countries in the world can “disappear” without action on the UN summit who will come to withstand climate change, the Commonwealth Secretary General warns in Wednesday’s interview.
“Threats to 42 small countries are existential,” said Baroness Patricia Scotland told AFP.
“People say it as if it does not mean what he said – that is, these small countries will disappear.” Dominican’s lawyer and former British government minister, who led the Commonwealth Association of former British royal countries, spoke during a visit to Rome which included talks with Pope Francis.
He said several the smallest members of Commonwealth, such as the Pacific Islands Tuvalu and Nauru who lay low, “looking for a new place to go” because “the sea level is so dangerous”.
He also criticized the impact of a more frequent storm, including in his home country.
“Dominica usually looks like an Eden park,” he said.
But after Hurricane Maria 2017 “Even the tree skin has been stripped, there is no one green leaf.
It’s like Armageddon”.
The UN climate talks in the city of Scotland Glasgow starting October 31 to November 12 aims to secure global agreements on decarbiting the world economy and map the humanitarian path of global warming disaster.
Scotland insisted that humanity had “no choice” but to act, note that poor nations exposed to climate change also needed a broad debt and vaccine.
“We are all in the same storm, but we must not all be on the same ship,” he said.
Commonwealth brings together 54 countries and 2.6 billion people, and Baroness is the leader of his first woman.
The term should have ended in 2010, but the Summit to decide whether to send it back or replace it has been postponed twice because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I certainly still have a lot of work to do that, I would really hope to still be in my position, but it is a matter of member countries to decide,” he said.