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A photograph taken from the air of a sinking refugee dinghy in the central Mediterranean
[Ruben Neugebauer/Sea Watch]
WORLD leaders attending Cop27 were urged on the final day of the summit to act now to create safe routes for refugees fleeing climate breakdown.
In a joint statement today, British refugee and migrant rights groups stressed that the issue of climate refugees must be included in negotiations during the summit in Egypt.
“As organisations that work with people on the front lines of climate breakdown, we know first-hand that for many, migration is already a survival strategy,” the statement, signed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, UK City of Sanctuary and Migrants Organise says.
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
