Licypriya in Egypt for UN COP27 Climate Summit
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 06 2022:
Eleven-year old child climate and environmental activist, Licypriya Kangujam has reportedly reached Sharm El Sheikh City in Egypt to attend the United Nations COP27 Climate Summit, representing the voice of millions of children of the world to urge the world leaders to deliver concrete climate action on loss and damage caused by the climate crisis.
The Egyptian government is hosting the United Nations Climate Summit, also known as COP27 from November 6 to 18 .
Main agenda of COP27 are loss and damage climate finance, mitigation and adaptation.
Licypriya will be speaking in 3 different sessions as an observer and speaker.
This is the second time Licypriya is attending such a high-level UN event, with the previous one being in COP25 held in 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
Last year, she missed COP26 held in Glasgow due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
A release quoted Licypriya as telling the media, "Children are dying due to war in Ukraine, due to air pollution and heat waves in India, flash floods in Pakistan, starvation in Ethiopia and girl children are out of school to fetch water from long distance in Africa.
Sacrificing the lives of millions of children for the failures of our leaders is unacceptable at any cost.
Instead of spending billions of dollars in wars, if we spend it on ending poverty, giving education and fighting climate change, what a great place our earth would be!" .
"I am going to demand that our world leaders give us clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and clean planet to live.
I will also urge to make climate education mandatory in the curriculum of all the schools.
There will be no climate solution without climate education.
COP27 is our last hope.
They already failed us 26 times in the last 26 COPs but this time we don't want them to fail again.
For us, COP27 will decide life or death", she added.
In one of the media questions, she replied: "Governments must work together to manage a just transition away from coal, oil and gas - the top cause of the climate crisis.
This is the right time to sign a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to secure our safe future and a safe equitable planet" .
More than 45,000 registered COP27 participants and over 120 heads of states and governments will attend the summit, including US President Joe Biden, UK PM Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Brazilian President Elect Lula de Silva, etc.
The Indian delegation will be led by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, who also landed in Egypt on Saturday.
Licypriya, one of the leading voices for climate change in the world from Manipur, had been in New York, USA for attending the United Nations General Assembly 2022 few weeks back.