Climate change needs cooperation from all nations

[View in browser]( [Mail & Guardian]( M&G Mornings | Wed 16 Nov   [Ozayr Patel] Climate change is a global problem, it needs cooperation from all nations. That’s the opening idea in a joint editorial [we published]( with the Guardian and a number of other outlets battling climate change. The editorial calls for polluting nations to honour climate funding commitments. Failure to do so means the poorest people will be hit the hardest by severe weather and climate issues. Funding is the only way the most vulnerable can deal with this changing world. According to one report developing countries will need $2 trillion annually to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and cope with climate breakdown. These polluting nations have a clear moral responsibility to help. Developing nations should be given enough cash to address the dangerous conditions they did little to create – especially as a global recession looms. The Guardian editorial calls all countries to implement a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies. The bulk of profit should go to developed nations who stand to be hit hardest. On the local front, before President Ramaphosa left for the G20 meeting in Bali, there was an attempt at the weekend to have him stand down. Safe to say that didn’t pan out. In his weekly blog, Paddy Harper brilliantly described how the so-called radical economic transformation (RET) forces in the party pushed for this. “Thuma Mina was done for and would, they said, be Ubering home from Nasrec on Sunday after breakfast and bye-bye, with a donkey cart on standby in case he didn’t have data.” Instead ”the RETs went missing and Ramaphosa delivered his closing address to the NEC and jetted off to the G20 meeting as if nothing ever happened. They’ve been hiding ever since,” [he wrote.]( Keep an eye out for a piece on Transnet and how the country’s rail network can be more efficient, Ster Kinekor successfully exiting business rescue and alleged police infiltration by the 28 number gang. Oh and don’t forget our FIFA World Cup group previews, football lovers won’t want to miss this. On Wednesday our climate and environment newsletter, The Green Guardian goes out. [Sign up to it]( and you can expect COP content, Eskom woes and three quiz questions to flex your brain. Ozayr Patel | Climate & Environment Editor [@Ozayr8]( [Subscribe now]( to enjoy unlimited access to The Mail & Guardian for only R99 per month.   [Eskom: ‘Brace for more load-shedding’]( Eskom’s Jan Oberholzer says South Africans should to prepare for more power cuts over the next year Join thousands of South Africans who want a more just South Africa. Read past party lines, past the bluster and the distortion. 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