With a set of proposals, Petro called for the dismantling of international institutions, the end of fossil fuels and economic planning to save humanity from these “times of extinction”.
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“Political leaders since COP number one to date have failed to stop the causes of the climate crisis”, declared the left-wing president in front of a hundred government and state leaders.
They “failed basically because overcoming the climate crisis implies stopping consuming oil and carbon,” he added.
“The market is not the main mechanism for overcoming the climate crisis. It is the market and the accumulation of capital that produce it and will never be its remedy. Only multilateral public and global planning would enable a global decarbonized economy. The UN must be the setting for this planning,” she explained.
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In combating climate change, preserving the Amazon forest is one of the main points.
“Colombia will grant 200 million dollars annually for 20 years to save the Amazon rainforest in its territory. We look forward to worldwide contribution,” he said.
Previously, in an event held with the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and African presidents, Petro had mentioned that he hoped to have Brazil and Venezuela on board this project.
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Petro had also said in August that he aspired to pay a monthly income to “one hundred thousand Amazonian families”.
The elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is expected at COP27 in the coming days, while Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, is also in Sharm El Sheikh and is expected to address the plenary this Tuesday (8).
(with AFP)
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