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Rich countries contribute "change" to the Green Climate Fund
One reality is that climate change It affects disproportionately in the poorest regions of the world where adaptive capacity is weakest. It is a fact that we can see every day in the news and, although it seems distant, it affects us all.
What is the Green Climate Fund?
The Green Climate Fund - GCF(GCF), was adopted as the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention about him Climate change (UNFCCC) in late 2011, based in South Korea. Its objective is to contribute in an ambitious way to the achievement of the mitigation and adaptation objectives to climate change of the international community. A global fund that seeks to support developing countries, to invest in renewables, in "green" technology, to support them against climate change and its consequences. Consequences that in reality, and initially, although they do not want to assume it, are caused by the rich countries.
Today, after the international donor conference in Berlin, Although the initial collection objective, which amounted to 10,000 million dollars (7,900 million euros), was not achieved, the thirty countries gathered have committed to providing a fund of 9,300 million dollars for the next four years.
A few days ago, at the G20 summit in Australia we could recognize that the United States pledged $ 3 Billion and Japan $ 1.5bn. Germany and France and Great Britain have pledged about $ 1bn each, and Sweden more than $ 500 million.
Smaller quantities have been offered today by countries such as Switzerland, South Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Mexico, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic.
How much does each country contribute to the Green Climate Fund?
In a few days, in December, from Lima will host the United Nations international climate conference. Vital meeting to achieve a global environmental agreement. Today's meeting in Berlin is the first formal donor meeting of the Green Climate Fund (FVD).
Some experts point out that the contribution that is made is really "small change" compared to the real need.. We could already identify inSix graphs that confirm the earth's climate change by the hand of man that we are on the wrong track. Although Europe approves reducing CO2 to 40%, an increase in renewables to 27% and a target of 27% for energy efficiency, we must not forget that we are alone on the planet.
From the newspaper the "the Economist" already warns us that:
- Greenpeace rated the promises as "An important first step"But he criticized Australia, Russia and other countries for doing nothing.
- "As climate change unfolds faster than expected, financial support for those most affected is still at a snail's pace"said Stefan Krug, head of the political unit of Greenpeace Germany.
- "We have not yet reached the $ 15 billion in initial contributions that we believe are necessary to establish the fund as the transformation mechanism that we agreed to"Nauru's Marlene Moses, president of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), said at the UN climate talks.
But the reality is that pollution continues to increase considerably according to the report issued this week by the UN - The Emissions Gap Report 2014 where the UN warns, according to its scientists, that the world must cut CO2 emissions to zero by 2070 at the latest, to keep global warming below dangerous levels and prevent a global catastrophe.
As data that we can identify from Green Climate Fund. From HERE, the contributions during the last years according to countries. From Spain, I cannot identify any contribution in the search engine and if we go to the contributions per year HERE (Periodic Reports section) I don't identify anything either…. I hope that some reader sheds more light on the subject, although this year "apparently" we contribute 0.016 Billion dollars. Definitely, climate change does not go with Spain and, even less, what happens to poor countries!
References:
- Theguardian… HERE. (News)
- Eleconomista… HERE) (News)
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