Eleven nations least responsible for global heating must spend up to 22% of GDP on dealing with effects of it
worst drought in a generationElizabeth Myendo, Tearfund’s disaster management lead for southern and east Africa, said: “The hunger crisis in East Africa has shown the terrible power of the climate emergency. Acute malnutrition and lack of clean water is putting intolerable strain on hospitals and clinics.
Adapting to climate change was a key feature of the Paris agreement in 2015. But a pledge made in 2009 by wealthy nations to deliver $100bn a year from 2020 to 2025 to help low-income countries with mitigation hasAt the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, countries agreed only to launch a two-year effort to define aWealthy nations came up with new pledges of about $960m a year, but the amounts promised are well below the $70bn a year developing countries are estimated to need now.
The report says: “It is a huge injustice that the impacts and the costs of the crisis are being borne by communities that have the fewest resources to respond to it – and who did the least to cause it.” In many of the countries, communities are coming up with innovative solutions to reduce the impact of climate change, but they do not have the money to generate wider positive consequences.
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