Nepal Floods Should Mobilise Climate Action: UN Green Fund Chief
Duarte said countries move quickly on emergencies but not climate, as the fund expands Pacific adaptation spending to $1 billion.
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Nepal floods should mobilise climate action: UN green fund chief
Mafalda Duarte, executive director of the UN's multi-billion-dollar Green Climate Fund, said many countries do not understand the world faces tipping points from which it cannot go back. "We see globally climate change dropping in terms of priorities, with other things -- conflicts and shocks -- taking priority," she told AFP. "We see when there is will, that finance is mobilised to respond to emergencies. For some reason, we don't see the same …
"Obligation Of Large Nations": Nepal Seeks Climate Justice After Floods
Nepal has formally approached the board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, seeking urgent financial assistance following the catastrophic flash flood in the Bhotekoshi river basin on August 26
Deadly flooding on Nepal's border with China, as well as wildfires in Europe, should bring attention back to the impact of climate change, the head of the UN's Green Climate Fund said today.
"These phenomena are now unfolding everywhere, they are not just a phenomenon of developing countries"
The director of the UN Green Fund stressed that the deadly floods in Nepal and the fires in Europe show again the impact of climate change, calling on politicians to act immediately.
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