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well that will kill the investigation! see you in three years and no charges!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/shannon-sauders/2025/07/24/amanpour-upset-over-rich-countries-wont-pay-un-ordered-climate
Amanpour Upset Over Rich Countries Won’t Pay UN-Ordered Climate Reparations
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.
Regenvanu added to the “pressure” for countries to participate in climate reparations:
And this particular decision today gives a lot of hope to the youth because they're the ones who pushed for this advisory opinion and the fact that it's been so strong in their favor will galvanize them as well as wider civil society to put much more pressure on governments to take real action in the face of a reality of increasing devastation caused by climate change for every country. So, the reality will force countries to come to accept what this advisory opinion has just said.
Here’s another reality check: giving money to these countries for climate change will not help the ocean to rescind or cause temperatures to fall. Meanwhile, U.S. carbon emissions have been on the decline since 2000, regardless of who the president has been. Someone tell the climate activists at the UN and PBS.