Hundreds of people line up to receive their second dose of vaccine against the coronavirus at the municipal ground, July 29, 2021, in Hyderabad, India
THE Westminster government has been accused of locking climate campaigners from the global South out of this month’s crucial Cop26 climate summit by continuing to block access to vaccines.
As world leaders gathered today for the summit’s opening session, campaign groups said the decisions made over the next 10 days could be brought into question due to the conference’s exclusionary nature.
Dorothy Guerrero, of Global Justice Now, said the refusal to give more manufacturers, particularly in developing countries, access to produce the vaccine is part of the reason some had been unable to attend.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
