Youth Activists Around the World React to Biden s Climate Plans
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Published on 4/29/2021 at 4:29 PM
Here is what some youth climate leaders around the world are saying about the Biden administration’s climate plans on the heels of President Biden’s first congressional address.
Gaston Zilberman
“It is definitely a big step forward to move from a denialist president to one who includes the climate crisis as a central focus of his speeches. However, although his plans seem very ambitious, they continue to destroy the lands of the global south. Countries like the USA would simply not exist without the exploitation of countries from which they can take cheap resources without regulations like in Argentina, the country where I live, with fracking and mega-mining. Our eyes will be on how he translates those words into action.”
By Sarah C. Beasley
Canadian Youth Climate Leaders. From davidsuzuki.org
One of the Earth’s most precious resources are youth leaders from many countries who are mobilizing to vocally share their demands regarding climate change. This diverse group includes Indigenous climate activists, who are rallying and protesting for their very survival and cultural future. “Indigenous” means produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environments. It also means innate or inborn. Whether one is newly immigrated to a given region or has lived there for generations, being indigenous as a youth climate activist means caring deeply about the future survival of the place, peoples, and species as interdependent aspects of nature.
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By Luigi Serenelli2021-02-16T13:15:00+00:00
Germany’s Sustainable Finance Committee, a group of experts set up to advise the government on a sustainable finance strategy, expects its recommendations to lead to “the establishment of a clear framework” to transform the finance system, said Kristina Jeromin, deputy chair of the committee, at a sustainable forum organized by local paper
Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The committee will publish its final report on 25 February, Jeromin said without disclosing the content. It delivered its interim report in March last year.
The committee believes sustainable finance to be the financial system’s central pillar, Jeromin said, adding that its mandate is to drive a reform of the real economy towards sustainability. An essential point to build a sustainable economy is transparency, also for financial products or services in the insurance sector.