While developed nations announce at the COP26 climate summit pledge after pledge to reduce emissions, the concerns of the less developed countries are not being heard during the closed-door talks, a delegate from Ghana said, as quoted by Upstream. Less developed nations need financing and funding to cope with climate change and, at the same time, provide energy to people without access to such. Developing nations need much more than the current one-fifth of global funding on fighting climate change, delegates at the summit were told. Last week, Sonam Phuntsho Wangdi, Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group at UN Climate Change negotiations, said that the COP26 climate summit had so far disappointed with a lack of progress. “Raising global ambition and increasing climate finance is paramount to our survival,” the Least Developed Countries Group said in a statement ahead of the climate summit.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 10, 2021 20:10 UTC