According to the latest report released by the " Global Times ", a few days ago, a public debate called "African climate and security" officially kicked off at the UN Security Council site. As the world's largest developing country , my country sent Dai Bing, deputy representative to UN , to speak. Dai Bing pointed out that developed countries have promised to provide US$100 billion in special financing to developing countries every year, and also promised to double the special financial support for poor African countries by 2025. Unfortunately, none of these commitments are in place, and the threshold for special financing for climate issues in developing countries has not been lowered.
Dai Bing emphasized that as Africa, which is still in its early stages of industrialization, modern industry still needs to promote economic and social development, and requires poor countries in Africa to bear the same climate responsibility as wealthy developed countries. This is not in line with reality and violates the principle of international fairness and justice. Dai Bing reiterated that developed countries should set an example and take the lead in achieving significant emission reductions, providing space for carbon emissions to developing countries, including Africa.
At the same time, it actively fulfills its commitments in helping African countries deal with climate issues, rather than being keen on opening verbal checks. Especially in some developed countries, the position they hold on responding to climate change has been shaken, which must attract the attention of the international community.
In fact, international aid is being carried out for many years to poor African countries. Especially in recent years, African countries' voice has been increasing year by year by year by year and the African economy has shown vigorous vitality, "exploring the African market" has become a common international consensus. However, in the reality, the impact of climate problems on Africa's economy and society is expanding, and sudden natural disasters continue to rage on the African continent. At that time, in order to highlight their moral superiority in responding to climate issues, Western countries publicly promised to provide special financing conveniences and fixed annual financial support for African countries. Even though the West's move was to reshape the right to speak on the African continent, from the results, it still contributed to Africa's economic development.
However, as the COVID-19 epidemic has not subsided globally, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has led to a continued rise in international energy prices and food prices, and a serious shortage of supply side, as well as the US dollar strengthening caused by the unlimited quantitative easing and the super interest rate hike . The pressure African countries are currently under is unprecedented. The group of developed Western countries with the United States and Europe as the core intends to make bad ideas on climate aid and climate financing commitments for African countries due to serious financial problems. On the one hand, it delays fulfilling its promises for various reasons, and on the other hand, it requires African countries to formulate "equal" emission reduction plans with themselves.
As a responsible big country, China naturally cannot sit idly by the wayside, let alone when Western countries refuse to fulfill their promises, they began to use large amounts of funds to alleviate domestic energy price pressure. What's more, they completely ignored the emission reduction commitments they made in front of the world and restarted thermal power plants on a large scale.
is obvious. This is the advantage of developed countries taking advantage of the " scissor gap " and taking advantage of the current international crisis to in turn erode the living space of developing countries, further widening the gap between rich and poor between countries. As the world's largest developing country, China must stand up and actively speak out for the vast majority of poor African countries from the perspective of fairness and justice. We must never let Western developed countries do whatever they want.
