Is there still hope for the south after COP26?

A climate action perspective from a developing country on the morning after.

Tropical Cyclone Eloise approaching Mozambique (photo: NASA)

If you haven't followed this new series: in the last 52 days of the year, I look back at the 52 weeks of 2021. We arrived at week 4 of this year, which was the last week of January. In that week, some newspapers wrote about Tropical Cyclone Eloise that caused devastation in Mozambique in the previous days, but I don't expect you to remember that. Mozambique is far from the readers in the western world, and therefore the news reaches us with a bit of delay as if we still lived in the 19th century.

Next door to Mozambique, on the island of Madagascar, which you can see on the right on the satellite picture, is currently a famine caused by climate change; quite