Poor countries are trying their best to fight climate change. But according to the UNFCCC, at least $ 1.4 billion in additional funding will be needed to support the successful implementation of these plans.
Le Nivedita Khandekar | Amannan Hindustan, New Delhi
UPDATE ON NOV 14, 2013 10:52 PM IST
The poorest of the poorest countries – 10 of them in Asia – are trying their best to fight climate change.
For example, Angola is trying to adapt fishing to survive climate change. Cambodia, on the other hand, is looking to make its water supply and agriculture more sustainable.
Deep in the Minch, the small island nation of Samoa is trying to strengthen infrastructure for tourism-dependent communities. But the key question is, how do they get the money for it?
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced on Thursday that at least $ 1.4 billion in additional funding is needed to support the successful implementation of comprehensive plans to address such inevitable impacts on climate change as part of the National Change Action Program (NAPA).
As governments meet for the UN climate change conference in the Polish capital, the poorest countries – the least developed countries (LDCs) – around the world have completed the broad set of their plans, through which they have identified immediate change needs and created concrete projects to meet those needs.
In total the 48 WHSs have submitted their change plans to the UNFCCC secretariat, which said, these plans will help poor countries better assess the effects of immediate change, for example thirst and floods, and what they need in the way of support to be more sustainable. to the effects of climate change.
“Science clearly shows that a high degree of climate change is inevitable, as confirmed by the latest conclusions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Typhoon Haiyan is the one latest in a series of worsening weather events around the world, and we know there is more to come, “said UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres.
The UN identifies 49 countries as belonging to the LDCs group based on three criteria: low income, weak human assets and economic vulnerability. Of these, 33 are in Africa, 10 in Asia, one in the Caribbean and five in the Pacific.
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