"Unless there is money, we cannot do adaptation, we cannot attend to loss and damage. So climate finance becomes the new human right," Mansoor Ali Shah, the Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan told APA.
"Coming from a global south that says Pakistan, countries of the global south are affected by climate change. So our strategy is adaptation because we have to adjust to this new climate that is coming to us and we are not the emitters of greenhouse gases.
So in that case, we've talked about a number of things, especially that climate finance is the most important thing for us. Unless there is money, we cannot do adaptation, we cannot attend to loss and damage. So climate finance has become the new human right. That's what we were saying from the Pakistan pavilion. Reparative justice is the new climate justice," - Mansoor Ali Shah noted.
He said that the developed countries have this climate debt that they must pay countries suffering from climate change: "The entire focus of COP29, at least from the judicial side and as well as from the government side, is that we need to have climate finance and developed countries has to give this money to countries suffering from climate change. It is because of them and their emissions that have caused this problem in so many low-income countries. They have a moral obligation, a legal obligation to pay countries suffering from climate change, not as a gesture of goodwill, but as a right, as an obligation so that they are able to attend to their adaptation needs and as well as loss and damage issues."
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