Cuba highlights COP 27's role in tackling climate crisis

 HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 9 (ACN) Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said today that the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, provides a framework to outline strategies and promote solutions to the current climate crisis and remarked that the developed nations must take on stronger commitments to tackle climate change, given their historical responsibility in the degradation of the environment, and honor their promise of providing 100 billion dollars a year to support this effort.

Marrero Cruz pointed out that climate change affects the entire planet but even more so the southern countries of the South and stressed the urgent need to put an end to the irrational consumption patterns of capitalism.

Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, underscored that while the developing countries are calling for accelerating and finalizing negotiations on a new financial goal at COP27, the developed nations are trying to delay this process.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) is a yearly conference that brings together the signatory states of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which recognizes changes in the Earth's climate and its adverse effects as a common concern. COP marked the establishment of the two main agreements on the strategy to confront climate change: the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015).

Cuba’s position at the event is based on supporting the efforts of developing countries to secure the financial mechanisms required to cope with the losses and damages caused by climate change.