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WORLD NEWS Friday 26 august 2022
Dutch agencies help migrants sleeping outside crowded camp

By MIKE CORDER bad conditions here be-
Associated Press cause I didn’t hear about
TER APEL, Netherlands (AP) it,” he said. A number of
— Dutch aid agencies factors have created the
tended Thursday to hun- crisis in Ter Apel. It can take
dreds of migrants camped months or more to process
in sweltering heat outside the asylum applications
an overcrowded center for of migrants arriving from
asylum-seekers as Dutch so-called “safe countries”
authorities investigated the who ultimately are not en-
death of a baby in the cen- titled to stay. A housing cri-
ter a day earlier. sis means refugees often
The Dutch arm of Doctors have nowhere to go once
Without Borders deployed they have been granted
medics to the tiny village of a residency permit and
Ter Apel in the northeastern therefore stay on at asy-
Netherlands to give first aid lum-seeker centers.
and other assistance. A mo- While many Dutch towns
bile hospital was expected and cities offered places
to arrive Friday, the organi- for Ukrainians who fled the
zation’s national director, war in their country, the
Judith Sargentini, said. It is welcome mat has worn
the first time the humanitar- thin for asylum-seekers from
ian group was called in to Hundreds of migrants seek shelter outside an overcrowded asylum seekers center in Ter Apel, other countries. The ma-
assist with a Dutch crisis. northern Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Associated Press jority of people arriving in
For two nights running, Ter Apel are Syrians flee-
some 700 people have Some sheltered in the shad- situation to overcrowded are healthy, you’ll get sick ing their nation’s grinding
slept outdoors because the ow of a Red Cross station migrant camps in Greece. here.” She said two people civil war.“There’s about

asylum reception center which had Wi-Fi and power “These are 700 people were hospitalized Thursday 60,000 Ukrainians in mu-
with an official capacity of for charging their phones. sleeping rough: no show- a man who had a heart at- nicipalities that are being
2,000 does not have space Others squabbled as they ers, very bad facilities, no tack and another who did housed there, and there
for them and the Dutch tried to board a bus to a health care from the insti- not have medication for his you can see it was possible.
government is scrambling nearby town. Inside a tent, tutions,” Sargentini told The diabetes. But when it comes to non-
to find emergency accom- a medic checked people Associated Press. “And it State Secretary for Asylum Ukrainian refugees — peo-
modation. With tempera- who wanted care. Blue might not be as crowded and Migration Eric van der ple here are mostly from
tures above 30 degrees plastic children’s paddling as on the Greek isles, but if Burg told reporters he was Syria, from Turkey, Afghani-
Celsius (86 degrees Fahren- pools were set up as wash- you come here after a long “deeply shocked” by the stan — municipalities still
heit) on Thursday, migrants ing stations, and a small row journey as a refugee, you death of the 3-month-old look the other way,” said
lay listlessly on blankets of portable toilets stood think you find safety, but baby. The cause of death Sander Schaap of refugee
under four canvas shades near the covered areas. you find neglect. And you was under investigation, he aid group Vluchtelingen-
held up by wooden poles. Sargentini compared the sleep like this. Even if you said. “I’m surprised from the Werk. q

U.S. envoy says Russian invasion speeds shift to clean energy

By ROD McGUIRK al shift toward renewable understanding of the rever- countries are actually do- Australia was focusing on
Associated Press energy. “What has some- berations on that front is ing in response, it’s going India in developing an in-
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) times been lost in people’s that when you look at what to accelerate the energy ternational collaboration
— Russia’s invasion of transition,” Duke said. on the production of solar
Ukraine will accelerate the “The European Union has panels and green hydro-
world’s shift to renewable tripled down on its efforts gen.
energy because of price to deploy renewables and Australia had also priori-
shocks in oil and gas, a U.S. heat pumps and to electrify tized green energy tech-
climate envoy said Thurs- its vehicle fleet and other- nology partnerships with
day. wise respond to this crisis,” Japan, South Korea and
U.S. Deputy Special Envoy he added. “That’s going to the United States to avoid
for Climate Rick Duke was take time … but the pace is the supply chain constraints
speaking at an Australian quickening because of the that have arisen through
National University forum conflict.” the pandemic, Munro said.
after meetings with Austra- Meanwhile, Australia plans The Australian govern-
lian government officials to reduce its heavy reliance ment elected in May has
on bilateral cooperation on solar panels manufac- increased Australia’s 2030
in transitioning to net-zero tured in China, a Russian emissions reduction tar-
greenhouse emissions by ally, by diversifying its trad- get to 42% from the previ-
2050. In this photo provided by the Australian National University, ing partners as the Austra- ous administration’s goal
Duke described the Rus- U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Rick Duke speaks at lian government scales up of 26% to 28% below 2005
an Australian National University forum in Canberra, Australia,
sian invasion that began six Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, after meetings with Australian its transition to renewables. levels. The United States is
months ago as “one of the government officials on bilateral cooperation in transitioning to Kushla Munro, who heads aiming for a 50% to 52% re-
biggest geopolitical drivers net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050. the government’s Interna- duction by the end of the
at the moment” for a glob- Associated Press tional Climate Division, said decade.q