Some Zimbabwean lawmaker who attended the climate summit in Brazil is calling out the whole thing as basically pointless because the biggest polluters just ghosted the event. America, China, and India never showed up, and the US is apparently dropping cash to bring back coal plants while everyone else is trying to hit emissions targets.
The guy wants parliaments across Africa to stop messing around and start writing actual binding laws that force companies to report environmental spending and dedicate real budget percentages to climate stuff. He points out that African countries are getting wrecked by climate disasters despite producing almost none of the emissions, while G20 nations are pumping out over 80 percent of greenhouse gases and dodging accountability.
Zimbabwe legislators are getting about 50 grand for constituency projects compared to over a million in places like Zambia and Nigeria, which apparently makes it impossible to fund green energy initiatives locally without begging donors for scraps.
The guy wants parliaments across Africa to stop messing around and start writing actual binding laws that force companies to report environmental spending and dedicate real budget percentages to climate stuff. He points out that African countries are getting wrecked by climate disasters despite producing almost none of the emissions, while G20 nations are pumping out over 80 percent of greenhouse gases and dodging accountability.
Zimbabwe legislators are getting about 50 grand for constituency projects compared to over a million in places like Zambia and Nigeria, which apparently makes it impossible to fund green energy initiatives locally without begging donors for scraps.
