Fifty million people in India depend on growing sugar for his or her living. That’s more people than live in Spain. Their lives rarely make global news.
In August, Climate Home sent reporters to 2 sugar-growing states. Within the to begin a four-part series published today, they are convinced that climate change is making the lives of sugar farmers much, much harder.
To grow sugar, you'll need steady weather. However the state of Maharashtra endured a heatwave accompanied by downpours – neither which are great for growing sugar. So farmers are can not pay the bills.
Like farmers all over the world, global warming is making them consider moving. But they're loathe to leave their community as well as their life-style for that city.
Why not grow something else, which isn’t so susceptible to the changing weather’s whims? Since the government gurantees to purchase sugar in a certain price. It doesn't do so for other crops like cotton and soy beans.
These sugar farmers are precisely the type of people who Zoha Shawoo and Inès Bakhtaoui likely been on mind once they wrote for all of us now that vulnerable communities should be calling the shots how loss and damage funds are eventually dished out.
They would like them around the new loss and damage fund’s board and controlling how project budgets are spent. They don’t want them to need to jump through bureaucratic hoops to obtain the money and have to battle over scarce funds with other victims of global warming.
As in climate talks, finance is a key division anyway talks in Montreal this week. India was one of more than 60 nations whose negotiators got up and walked out of finance negotiations in the early hours of Wednesday.
They the rich world says it wants to protect nature but won’t provide them with the money so they can do so. Ministers arrived yesterday to sort out the mess by Monday.
Ahead of the summit, the Global Environment Facility’s head told Climate Home this summit was “Copenhagen or Paris”. At the moment, it’s looking distinctly Danish.
