On May, workers are united to make adult pollutants pay for climate damage Climate crisis

When harsh weather becomes new ordinary workers, informal workers all over South Asia bears the increasing crisis. Violations of workers’ rights and weak social protection are worse under the climate crisis. In India, amid the ongoing heat wave, we may have reached a boiling point where sellers rise in the streets, waste talls, and other unofficial workers in the challenge, and meet together with solidarity.

Their demands for compensation for losses and other damage to coal, oil and gas companies aim. In 2023 alone, climate disasters pushed by oil and gas companies on more than 9 million people in Asia, while large oil continues to prevent climate work, spread misleading information, and collect tremendous wealth.

International Workers Day, a new coalition in Delhi is formed. Union union unions, and climate justice activists such as Greenpeace India launched the support of their counterparts in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, the collective workers for climate justice – South Asia. Along with the collective, the groups signed Pay Pact pollutants, a global campaign to retain billionaires and pollute companies responsible for the climate crisis, by demanding governments that offer new taxes on fossil fuel companies to help societies rebuild climate disasters and invest in comprehensive adaptation solutions.

Unhappy workers on the front lines

The informal workers in South Asia are not strange to crises. They were on the front lines of social marginalization, increasingly, the effects of climate change. South Asia, with more than 80 percent of its power operating in the informal sector, is witnessing high temperatures and irregular weather events that significantly affect people’s ability to work and survive.

In 2024, Greenpeace India documented how street vendors face financial losses and health risks during the summer months, as sellers in cities such as Delhi told a 50 % decrease in income due to heat waves. However, workers remain largely absent in policy -making. While only five of the oil majors received more than 102 billion dollars in 2024, informal workers left to bear the weight of the crisis.

Group power

One of the struggles of the workers of the jute mills in Bengal to the resistance of tea farming workers throughout the region – the regulation of employment has obtained basic rights and the protection of work for millions. They were never wages, but about dignity, recognition and power.

Today, this legacy is more important than ever. The climate crisis mainly changes the nature of life and work. These effects have been seized on a carbon scenario, with expectations of more than 800 million Southern Asia who live in locations that will become hot climate points by 2050.

In a strong response, workers restore group strength. When workers unite through sectors, sects, races, religions and ethnicities, they unite the systems of exploitation and environmental degradation. This movement refuses to flatten their various experiences in one narration. By connecting the force of previous action conflicts with the urgency of the climate crisis, this collective does not only interact, but also visits a new path forward.

Climate societies in climate policy

Communities on the front lines of climate effects such as hunters and waste forceps are factors for living and living experience. They are witnessing environmental changes in the actual time, and they gained an understanding of the risks to which their livelihoods are often exposed to the policy summaries. However, local and global climatic policy spaces remain far away, dominated by the institutions of the elite and the introductory colors.

Moreover, it is certain in the global south, non -economic losses such as the loss of culture and society beyond that economic. Treating these losses requires a significant participation of affected societies. A special attention must be paid to ensuring that financing loss and damage is fair and fair, without deepening the current debt burden or imposing unfair conditions on the same countries that already carry the crisis.

You cannot wait for the loss and damage

The loss and damage caused by climate change in South Asia is already in billions of dollars annually. By 2070, this number can jump to $ 997 billion. Despite the promises I made at the United Nations climate change conferences, climate financing was slow, partial and insufficient. The wealthy countries and pollutants have been subjected to a lack of drilling for new oil and gas.

Conditions for workers must now be met. They urgently require shadow breaks and paid recovery for living and survival. While stalling in global climate financing, adaptation and urgency costs are escalating. That is why the pollutants pay a very vital agreement. It is not just a gesture – it requires implemented obligations. With the gathering of workers in Delhi on May, they send a clear message: he must lead a just and sustainable sustainable working class. By accounting for oil and gas companies, climate flexibility is really – not a privilege.

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