Loading...
Financing Adaptation: Why the UN's Bali climate conference must mandate the search for new funds
Sterrett, Charlotte
Sterrett, Charlotte
Citations
Altmetric:
Titre
Publication date
2007-12-04
Document type
Briefing note
Pages
12
Author(s)
Advisors
Editor(s)
Other Contributors
Affiliation
ePub Date
Submitted date
Subject
Local subject classification
MeSH
Keywords
Country
Collections
Files
Loading...
English paper
Adobe PDF, 159.94 KB
Loading...
French paper
Adobe PDF, 179.64 KB
Loading...
Portuguese paper
Adobe PDF, 171.93 KB
Loading...
Spanish paper
Adobe PDF, 168.18 KB
Description
Oxfam estimates that adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to cost at least $50bn each year, and far more if global greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut fast enough. Yet international funding efforts to date have been woeful. In the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its direst warnings to date of the impacts of climate change on vulnerable developing countries, the rich and high-polluting countries increased their contribution to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for urgent adaptation needs by a mere $43m. This brings the total pledged to $163m - less than half of what the UK is investing in cooling the London Underground. Worse, only $67m has actually been delivered to the Fund - that's less than what people in the USA spend on suntan lotion in one month.
Language
English
French
Portuguese
French
Portuguese
Other Titles
Abstract
Citation
Publisher(s)
Journal
Journal Theme
Volume
Issue
Research Unit
DOI
Table of contents
Series
ISSN
EISSN
ISBN
978-1-84814-381-4