Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland (NAD) www.netzwerkafrika.de - AEFJN http://aefjn.org/ Putting the global common good before national interests - The serious responsibility of international and local policy The numerous climate summits in the last 20 years have...
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Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland (NAD) www.netzwerkafrika.de - AEFJN http://aefjn.org/ Putting the global common good before national interests - The serious responsibility of international and local policy The numerous climate summits in the last 20 years have not succeeded to reach a binding agreement for all countries which defines ‘common and differentiated responsibilities’. Pope Francis sees the reason for this in a lack of ethics in international relations, the fight for national interests to the detriment of the global common good, the lack of effective international institutions and the dominance of the financial markets over politics. Will the Paris Climate Summit pick up the challenge and live up to its responsibility to future generations? Inequity affects not only individuals but entire countries; it compels us to consider an ethics of international relations. A true “ecological debt” exists, particularly between the global north and south, connected to commercial imbalances wi
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