Developing nations are least responsible for climate change but cop it worst. Will the COP29 climate talks tackle this injustice?
- Written by Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Since the Industrial Revolution, country after country has turned to fossil fuels to power their transport and industry.
Now the bill is coming due. Huge volumes of long-buried carbon are in the atmosphere, warming the planet. Climate disasters are arriving more often and getting worse.
But the pain from climate change is not distributed fairly....





