BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. The event entitled “Eco-colonialism: The Environmental Legacy of Colonial and Neo-colonial Exploitation” was held today within the framework of COP29, organized by the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), Trend reports.
The speakers of the event drew attention to the work of determining the extent of damage caused to nature in the territories enslaved by colonial states over the years, as well as the environmental crimes committed by them in these territories exploited from an ecological point of view.
At the event, representatives of the peoples under the colonization of France and the Netherlands spoke about the current situation in their countries. Issues related to the illegal exploitation of resources in overseas areas by colonial powers in the colonized territories, deforestation, land pollution, including the environmental consequences of nuclear tests conducted by France in French Polynesia and compensation still not paid by France to the affected population, pollution of nature as a result of the use of chlordecone in Guadeloupe, and serious damage to the health of the local population, the exploitation of nickel deposits in New Caledonia, including the spread of various diseases as a result of the exploitation of Mayotte.
The speakers linked the more serious consequences of climate change in overseas areas to colonialism, demanding France and the Netherlands comply with the demands of indigenous peoples.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) started in Baku on November 11. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system.
The acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for “Conference of Parties” and is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the Convention. Unless the parties decide otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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