Det kniber gevaldigt med at overholde løfterne om at støtte fattige lande i tilpasning til klimaændringer, som rige lande har givet i 2009. Norge klarer sig bedst, men blot to ud af ti lande betaler det, de er forpligtede til, skriver tænketank for klima og miljø mandag.
LONDON, November 26, 2012: The most detailed analysis to date of how well rich nations have kept promises to provide poorer ones with funds to tackle climate change was released today, writes International Institute of for Environment and Development in a press release Monday.
The research concludes that they have collectively failed to fulfil eight substantive pledges.
Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development — the study comes as countries prepare for the latest round of intergovernmental climate-change negotiations, which begin next week in Doha.
The wealthier nations promised in 2009 to provide developing countries with 30 billion US dollar by the end of 2012, and said this should be “new and additional” finance balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation activities.
They made additional pledges about transparency, governance and the need to help the most vulnerable nations first.
But so far, only 23,6 billion of the 30 billion dollar promised has been committed. And only 20 per cent of the fast start finance has been allocated to projects that will help poor nations adapt to a changing climate.
Less than half of the fast start finance is in the form of grants. The rest is loans, which means poor countries must repay with interest the costs of adapting to a problem they have not caused.
And rich nations have not provided enough transparent information to prove that their contributions are really new and not just diverted from existing aid budgets.
To examine transparency in more detail, the researchers evaluated donor nations across 24 measures. On the resulting scorecard, no donor nation scored more than 67 per cent.
“Without transparency about how and when rich countries will meet their climate finance pledges, developing countries are left unable to plan to adequately address and respond to climate change,” says co-author Timmons Roberts of Brown University in the United States, whose Climate and Development Lab led the research.
David Ciplet, also of Brown University, adds: “Only two of the ten donors we assessed are delivering their fair share of climate finance, based on their ability to pay and how much they have contributed to climate change through emitting greenhouse gases in recent decades.”
On these measures, Norway has performed best, providing five times its fair share. At the other end of the scale, both Iceland and the United States contributed less than half their fair share.
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