United Nations Shames Rich Nations for Climate Change Funding — Needs to Be 27x higher

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Written by Zachary Shahan
Published on September 3rd, 2009
in About Climate, About Economy, In Global

The United Nations (UN) released a report on September 1 that gives their strongest criticism of climate change funding to date. They say that rich, developed nations really need to step it up in the battle to control and reduce climate change. They say that funding should be about 27 times higher than it currently is ($500-600 billion compared to $21 billion annually).

The UN states that it does not “shy away… from insisting that the advanced countries will have to deliver resources and leadership on a much larger scale than has been the case to date.” This is a bold statement and a humungous lead-in to the Copenhagen climate conference in December.

In the press release for the new report — The World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet — the UN states: “By any measure, the Survey says that the amounts from bilateral and multilateral sources currently promised and expected to be available for meeting the climate challenge in the near term are woefully inadequate.”

The report states that what is needed is “a level of international support and solidarity rarely mustered outside a wartime setting.”

more:

http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/03/united-nations-un-shames-rich-nations-for-climate-change-funding-needs-to-be-about-500-600-billion-higher/

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1. all I can tell them is

good luck with that.

The leader or leading party of ANY developed nation that pushed for this would be committing political suicide.

it sucks but that is how it is