{"id":14333,"date":"2011-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.greenpeace.ch\/beitrag\/14333\/offener-brief-von-greenpeace-direktor-kumi-naidoo\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:30:47","slug":"offener-brief-von-greenpeace-direktor-kumi-naidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.ch\/de\/story\/14333\/offener-brief-von-greenpeace-direktor-kumi-naidoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Offener Brief von Greenpeace Direktor Kumi Naidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Wir erlauben uns, den folgenden offenene Brief von Kumi Naidoo im Original auf Englisch zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen. Gestern abend wurde Greenpeace Direktor Kumi Naidoo zusammen mit anderen von der Klimakonferenz, welche momentan immer noch andauert, ausgeschlossen. Dies nach einem friedlichen Sitzprotest.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Wir erlauben uns, den folgenden offenene Brief von Kumi Naidoo im Original auf Englisch zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen. Gestern abend wurde Greenpeace Direktor Kumi Naidoo zusammen mit anderen von der Klimakonferenz, welche momentan immer noch andauert, ausgeschlossen. Dies nach einem friedlichen Sitzprotest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MImYkfF4jUo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kumi&#8217;s offener Brief an die Regierungen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00abDear friends,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to our city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We remember a time in Durban \u2013 indeed, a period in the history of  this nation of South Africa \u2013 when we feared that the apartheid states&#8216;  intransigence would spark a conflict in which much blood would be shed.   But even at our lowest ebb, even when the injustice we faced seared  through every minute of every day, our people stood firm in the  knowledge that justice itself would defeat a system that put different  values on different people based on nothing more arbitrary than the  colour of their skin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, twenty years after our victory, in the remaining hours of the  Durban climate talks, with great urgency we call for a similar  breakthrough \u2013 one as unexpected, as deserved and as vital as South  Africa&#8217;s transition to democracy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You may not have felt it inside the rarefied air-conditioned  corridors of the conference centre, but a restless anger stalks this  land \u2013 an anger driven by a new apartheid that has trapped close to half  of humanity in a deadly embrace of poverty, inequality and hunger. Our  institutions \u2013 local, national and global, across public and private  sectors &#8211; are rapidly losing legitimacy. A mistrust that is driven by  the human greed of a minority has plundered the hopes and aspirations of  the majority. People sense it at a visceral level, this year alone it  has toppled dictators, and someday soon \u2013 perhaps not this year or the  next, but someday soon \u2013 the victims of rising temperatures will  similarly find their voice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your job is to meet their hopes before you meet their anger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Africa&#8217;s population is scheduled to reach two billion people by 2050,  while over three quarters of those human beings will be under 25 years  of age and living in overcrowded urban slums. Their carbon footprint is  practically zero but these communities will bear the brunt of your  failure \u2013 if that is what you decide upon \u2013 here in Durban. If the  agreement you make is to embrace a dead decade of climate inaction then  the name of our city will be remembered as the place you condemned our  continent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even today the resilience of our agricultural systems is stretched to  breaking point. The Horn of Africa, where 13 million people are at risk  of famine, is just the beginning. A major humanitarian crisis is  looming in West Africa affecting Mali, Burkino Faso and Niger where the  nexus of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition is chronic, systemic  and damning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And you want to hand us another degree of heat, and another one after that, and after that another?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You are heads of state, ministers and diplomats. The fact that you  are here, charged with delivering a solution, makes you among the most  powerful men and women who ever lived. Whether you choose to exercise  that power is in your gift.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A tremendous moral and political responsibility has been visited upon  you, but also the privilege of being the people \u2013 in this place, at  this time &#8211; who can shift our world onto a new path. You can listen us,  the people, and put our needs and a sustainable environment above what  you may feel is your national interest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But please believe us when we say there is no such thing as national  interest any more. Just as apartheid was a profound moral challenge to  the world, the effects of climate change know no borders. Conflict and  mass migration will touch your shores if the thermostat continues to  rise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here in Africa an unpredictable climate is like a powder keg. Our  food systems have stood on fragile ground in even the best of times. We  have gone from a net exporter of food in the 60s to being dependent on  food aid today. Responsibility for success here does not lie only with  the nations who ask us to carry the climate burden as this century  unfolds. African leaders also need to take a stand. This is our issue.   Close to four out of five Africans depend directly or indirectly on  agriculture for their livelihoods.  It provides 70% of Africa&#8217;s full  time employment, one third of total GDP and earns us 40% of total export  earnings. Importantly too, the majority of farmers in Africa are women,  and women are (and will continue to be) in the eye of the climate  storm. For every degree Celsius rise in temperature above the growing  season optimum, farmers can expect a 10 percent decline in grain yields.  This is not a problem for the future.  We are not speaking in  abstracts, because climate change is having a devastating effect on food  security now.  The evidence is there. The impacts are being felt now.   The high cost of food is a recurring serious threat to economic  development and social stability. Don&#8217;t take our word for it, just look  at the Middle East and North Africa, whose Arab Spring had its origins  in hunger and the high cost of food. Before the first protests began,  the price of bread had jumped 30% within a year, due to global shortages  of wheat. Imagine what multiple degrees of temperature rises will do to  our harvests, and what that in turn will do to the urban slums and  their teeming billions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So please, do not squander this moment. You must provide real money  for us to adapt to this threat and develop our economies without  exacerbating it. Make good on your years of promises, put over a hundred  billion on the table and the infrastructure to collect and distribute  it effectively. Ensure it serves the most vulnerable countries and  communities. Don&#8217;t tear up Kyoto &#8211; the global rulebook for how to save  our continent. Doing so would be like us in South Africa tearing up our  constitution after every election and starting afresh. The nations which  want to kill Kyoto want to do so because they favour more chaos,  argument and inaction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We ask you all, what are your priorities?  As you huddle in the  corridors discussing frameworks and redesigning paradigms or circling  the stratosphere on your busy schedules, our pastoralists on the plains  of East Africa walk in search of water, herding with guns as the  conflict over scarce resources begins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#171;Sekunjalo ke nako&#187; &#8211; now is the time to act. It was our lodestar in  our struggle for freedom from institutionalised racism. We call on you  to act decisively before the burning frustration of Africa&#8217;s legitimate  unmet expectations explodes. Friends from around the world who have  gathered in Durban, climate justice is not an abstract aspiration, it is  a moral imperative and one which we expect you to meet. Historic  responsibility must be accepted and met. It is your job to lay the  foundation on which all nations accept limits to their carbon growth. It  is your responsibility to provide the impetus for a just transition to a  low carbon future, to fuel a green race to the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You have loaded our atmosphere with a carbon debt. Do not pass the bill to the continent of Africa.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kumi co-authored this letter with Jay Naidoo, the first Cosatu  secretary-general who now chairs the Global Alliance for Improved  Nutrition. The letter appeared in The Mercury, 9 December 2011 during  the COP17 in Durban, South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wir erlauben uns, den folgenden offenene Brief von Kumi Naidoo im Original auf Englisch zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen. 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