Antalya. Representatives of civil society from around the world have protested at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-31) underway in Antalya, Turkey, demanding climate justice and debt relief.
Protesters gathered at the conference center premises demanded immediate debt relief for countries severely affected by the climate crisis and called on the international community to provide grants instead of loans for climate adaptation and recovery.
Expressing solidarity with the protest, Sujita Mathema, a representative of Nepal’s civil society, stated that although COP-31 is called the ‘COP of Implementation’ for fulfilling previous commitments, no concrete progress has been seen. She noted that…