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Greta Thunberg Foundation donates 275,000 euros to back Somalia, Pakistan against climate change
The Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated 275,000 euros to support the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ‘s emergency response to the historic floods in Pakistan and drought in Somalia.
“We need to support people before they move, we need to support people while they move, and afterwards, it’s a chain of events,” Thunberg said. “We need to think holistically like in any other emergency.”
“Countless of people are having to flee because of the climate crisis. The time to act is now. We need to get informed, speak up on climate justice and migrant justice, and support vital organizations like IOM,” she said on Twitter.
She added “the Greta Thunberg Foundation supports IOM’s important work with people displaced by the climate crisis in Pakistan and Somalia. The IOM is helping people to find a way to stay, adapt and move when there is no other option.”
António Vitorino, head of the UN migration agency IOM, and Thunberg said they had “found much common ground” during a recent discussion about the impact of global climate change on human mobility.”
Vitorino said he was “fully aligned with the Swedish activist, adding that her generation was “a source of inspiration and of resilience and being relentless in addressing this huge challenge from our experience in the field.”
With 20 million people displaced every year due to climate change, there is an urgent need to prevent global environmental crises and address the impacts of climate migration, said IOM.
Climate migration can’t be dismissed, the pair agreed, and finding solutions for people to stay, for people on the move, and for people to move, is crucial.
“The ones who are being more seriously hit by climate change are the populations that have less contributed in the past for the problems that we are confronted with,” said the IOM chief.
“And therefore, there is a need of solidarity and co-responsibility for the fate of those populations that are already today experiencing in their daily lives the human suffering attached to climate change.”
More than 15 million people in Somalia and Pakistan alone need humanitarian aid due to the recent extreme weather events, IOM estimates.
The donation from the Greta Thunberg Foundation is helping the UN agency continue its emergency response to affected communities in both countries.
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