Leaders at COP27 ‘gorging on excuses’ say Scottish Greens
World leaders heading to COP27 are “gorging themselves on excuses” in the hope that the climate crisis goes away, according to the Scottish Greens.
They say governments risk being judged by future generations for allowing “crimes against humanity” if they fail to immediately tackle issues of loss and damage.
Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman said that Scotland was doing what it could but called on the UK government to step up with others to do more.
She said:
“World leaders have spent too long gorging themselves on excuses while billions of people are being consigned to death by the climate crisis.
“Right now entire nations are staring into the abyss. Those countries who caused this crisis simply cannot sit idly by and wait for the question of their responsibility to disappear under the waves with countless villages.
“Future generations will judge this UK government and other polluters to be complicit in crimes against humanity if they fail to do something that actually reverses the course of climate breakdown."
“We often hear about leadership. But where is it? Where is the world when we are at one minute to midnight?
"We have the technology to tackle this. The world has the money to pay for it. All we are lacking is the will.
“In Scotland we are trying to play our part, but we have one hand tied behind our backs by an anti-climate Tory government that is addicted to fossil fuels and the enrichment of its wealthy friends.
"With the powers of a normal independent country we could do so much more."