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A 2020 move to open a futures water market on the Chicago exchange has resulted in a heated conflict between those who say monetizing is a positive step, and those who see speculation as bad for the environment and traditional peoples.
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For most of these communities, climate change is experienced through water – too much or too little. Thanks to its expertise in climate change and water, as host nation of the crucial global climate conference, COP26, Scotland has an opportunity to show global leadership in 2021. Together we can help amplify the voices of those living with the consequences of climate change who are too often forgotten at international political get-togethers.
For millions of people across the world, the climate emergency is already here. It is unravelling development progress for the worlds most marginalised communities. That means in effect, people who were perhaps beginning to see a way out of generations of poverty, thwarted back into just trying to survive day by day. The prospect for their children and their children’s children is even more bleak.