10x Fossil fuel sub- sidies receive 10 times the amount that renewable energy does.
right … Bridgetown 3.0 … sets clearly … the ambitions that we must reach if we are going to be serious about ena- bling persons to reach the targets for the global renewable summits, while at the same time not forgetting that the broad sustainable development goals must be our target because we are not one issue people. We might end up saving ourselves from doom from the planet, but then dying from something else like chronic non- communicable diseases that have overtaken our populations … Settling and solving the finance will not cause our citizens to be able to ben- efit from renewable energy tomorrow because there is still a project prepara- tion and a project execution capacity that Ursula [von der Leyen] referred to so appropriately. I hope, Mike, that this ability to bring us together … will mean that small island states will not
be omitted from the preparation and the investment that can take place. We are often ignored because our scale is simply too small … I am here because I have confidence in the fact that this pathway creates jobs, creates opportunities, and ultimately secures hope at the very time when the world needs hope more than ever … If we don’t find mechanisms as well to tap into the domestic capital … we will turn people who live as proud independent citizens into tenants in their own land again. We have not set on this journey to recolonize our peo- ple, but in fact to liberate them from a planet that is effectively in great crisis. Let us, therefore, do the right thing, but see people and hear people so that they can be part and parcel of the solution the world over. Global Renewables Summit, 24 September 2024
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