By Sarah Omondi
The climate change and Covid-19 pandemic have offered the world the challenge to work together towards tackling challenges affecting the people.
Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Executive Director Dr Mithika Mwenda says the pandemic and negative climatic change should not be treated differently as both affect human life in equal measure.
Dr Mwenda, who spoke during the Second World Forum on Climate Justice in the United Kingdom (UK), maintained that while the developed countries were highly hit by Coronavirus, the poor and developing countries had to bear the scorching effects of climate change.
“Climate change impacts primarily affect poor countries and communities, whereas wealthy nations were hit the hardest by COVID-19,” he said.
He noted that it was unfortunate that countries were able to raise a significantly high amount of money within a short period of time to tackle the pandemic while they could not raise the amounts initially to tackle harsh climatic conditions.
“This can only make us safely conclude that we can no longer frame global problems as matters of concern to rich or poor countries, the haves and have-nots, the weak and the strong, women and men, the youth and the old,” said Mr Mwenda.
He stressed the need for all stakeholders to unite and provide a lasting solution to all challenges faced by humans.
