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Rich Countries Must Pay Up or Humanity Will Pay the Price

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Lidy Nacpil has been an activist in her native Philippines since the early 1980s when she joined student protests against Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship.

She has been a longtime advocate for debt-free climate justice to developing nations, ending fossil-fuel subsidies, and imposing a global wealth tax.

She is coordinating the “Pay Up” movement at COP29 in Baku , Azerbaijan .

LN: $5 trillion is a low benchmark that we need to put out there so that governments know what numbers we should be talking about.

The total federal budget of the United States is $6.75 trillion , the next biggest economy in the West is Germany , and their entire federal budget is half a trillion.

There is a way of taxing the world’s wealthiest companies, high-worth individuals and families.

LN: We need to continue to fight, not just in the next COP but throughout the whole year .

There has to be a balanced allocation for both mitigation and adaptation, as well as loss and damage, he says.

He says if we work together and struggle together and persist, it will not take a short time.

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