“Ultimately you don’t need all countries to drive global progress. You need a starting point,” said Katerine Petersen from think tank E3G, who is attending the meeting.
“Then you need a coalition that can expand over time and show how it can and will be useful. And I think that’s what we’re expecting to see from Santa Marta.”
I understand why countries are hesitant to be the first to start eating the expense of climate change, especially if they are not always the one being a top contributor to it, but at some point (3-5 years is the timeframe discussed in the article) money won’t buy you out of problems at all anymore. Once oceans and other ecosystems start crashing, that’s an issue for you no matter how much cash you have.
As we’re seeing with EVs and green energy, if a country chooses to throw gasoline on the fire (US), other countries will see a greater profit selling water (China). I’d rather the US have not dedicated itself to incompetence and technological brain drain, but if other countries want to pick up where US left off, I wish them all the luck.
To date, we have the participation of over 53 nations:
Angola, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kiribati, Luxembourg, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, Tuvalu, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
I understand why countries are hesitant to be the first to start eating the expense of climate change, especially if they are not always the one being a top contributor to it, but at some point (3-5 years is the timeframe discussed in the article) money won’t buy you out of problems at all anymore. Once oceans and other ecosystems start crashing, that’s an issue for you no matter how much cash you have.
As we’re seeing with EVs and green energy, if a country chooses to throw gasoline on the fire (US), other countries will see a greater profit selling water (China). I’d rather the US have not dedicated itself to incompetence and technological brain drain, but if other countries want to pick up where US left off, I wish them all the luck.
Current countries signed up for this summit: