MP Amira Saber: Low-Income Countries Badly Affected by Climate Change

 Amira Saber, a member of the House of Representatives, said that the climate change has badly affected the Low-Income Countries. 

During the IPU meetings on the sidelines on COP-27.

Saber said that climate change has a bad effect on  people with disabilities, women, and elderly, as well as, low-income countries. 

Here are the most prominent points of Amira Saber's speech: 

"We are the first generation to feel the effects of climate change as sharply as we do now, but we also are the last generation, who could do the action and could really do something to change the narrative."

"It is the low-income countries the people with disabilities, women, elderly, who are the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and so they deserve all the greater attention to their vulnerabilities."

"In annex one of the UNFCCC, It is mentioned that the industrialized nations are those who should bear the greatest responsibility for Greenhouse gas emissions, which are produced by human activities, yet the fact is the poor countries and those, who are more vulnerable are the ones, who bear all the consequences."

"Although the universal human rights convention does not specifically mention the right to a safe and healthy environment, yet they all recognize the intrinsic link between rights; the right to life, health, food, and water, and actually we have all those rights threatened a lot by climate change."

"Climate change is the political choice, it is not just about the environment, it is about the communities, the jobs, the food, the health, and justice that is lacking, and which should be there."

"There is a direct connection between climate change and various types of social and justice, which we all witness now."

"Pledges are being put in year after year, 27 years now COP after COP, pledges are on the table, negotiations are happening, but not everyone knows what is happening in the negotiation rooms and If we do not move now shortly in time, the tiny fractions of the money and the measures that are needed now will be doubled and tripled, and we won't have the luxury of the intervention. Actually coming from a developing country, which has gone far trying to mitigate the climate change effects, I hate the term "loan," or "grant," it is that we are in this together and that is everyone should bear the responsibility and urge their countries to act properly."

"Egypt's Delta is one of the three extremely vulnerable, hotspots, mega delta, directly affected by 2050 according to IPCC, and this will lead to the submerging of Sinai, Nile Delta, and North Coast and 3/5 of Egypt's food production is threatened by the future of the delta. Delta is about to lose 35% of food production's capacity by 2030."

"For Egypt, to breathe a sigh of relief number of 246 billion is needed by 2030, 196 billion for mitigation and 50 billion for adaptation, and those funds should work together by lateral, multilateral, and also involve private funding. "