Solutions to climate change need to be discussed with people affected by its effects on communities. The diagnosis comes from the Marielle Franco Institute program manager and member of the Black Coalition for Rights, Marcelle Decothe. She is at the United Nations (UN) Climate Summit, COP27, held in Egypt.
“It is these mostly black people, these women who face water shortages and floods on a daily basis, the product of the climate consequences that we live in the world”, pointed out Marcelle in an interview with CNN Radio 🇧🇷 “We are here to say that the solution has to come from the protagonism of these people.”
Another problem pointed out by the manager is the lack of female representation among the leaders present at COP27.
“What I have seen is a concentration of men at the global negotiating table. And precisely more women in the place of civil society, which makes the diagnosis, demands and presents the solution”, she reports.
Marcelle Decothe argues that this disparity shows that it is not possible to debate climate change without discussing gender and without listening to the people most affected.
Source: CNN Brasil
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