On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Ralph Regenvanu that rich countries will ignore the United Nations's International Court of Justice ruling that rich countries must pay reparations to poor countries over climate change.
The catalyst behind the ICJ’s ruling came from the origin of groups like the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Worlds Youth for Clime Justice. Vanuatu happily took up their cause.
Amanpour voiced her displeasure over countries such as the “new U.S. Administration” and E.U. not acting over the United Nations reparations:
Can I ask you just to be very, very realistic? Because you can see that certainly with the new U.S. administration, even the E.U., all these nations and blocs that have talked a lot about, you know, growing back green and really taking care of the climate and doing what they can seem to be on the retreat right now. There are other financial issues, the U.S., for itself, has pulled out of all sorts of climate and multilateral accords and rolled back the clock on institutions around the climate and environment in its own country. “On the retreat” looks like well-established countries pouring money into their own countries to help them flourish before giving money to other countries based on rulings from radical foreign courts.
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