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Wealthy nations' failure to honour climate finance pledge a 'travesty' - UNDP
Reuters ^ | February 24, 2023 | By Aftab Ahmed and Shivangi Acharya

Posted on 02/24/2023 5:03:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

BENGALURU, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Developed nations' failure to deliver on a decade-old commitment to pay $100 billion in annual climate financing to developing nations is a "travesty", Achim Steiner, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, said on Friday.

Wealthy nations, who are most responsible for global warming, are yet to deliver on the 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion per year to help developing nations deal with the consequences of rising global temperatures.

"A travesty. I say this with all honesty," Steiner told Reuters during an interview on the sidelines of a Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors at a hill resort on the outskirts of the tech hub of Bengaluru.

"I think many countries should ask themselves whether this may be one of the most tragic errors in history, that 10 years after making such a promise, the commitment of $100 billion hasn't been delivered yet."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 02/24/2023 5:03:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hopefully, for the sake of poorer countries, it never gets paid.


2 posted on 02/24/2023 5:06:29 AM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Summary: Gibsmedat.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 5:07:53 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: eclecticEel

Golbal Warming/Climate Change is a HOAX!.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 5:08:09 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guilt trip shakedowns are getting old. Wealthy nations, like wealthy individuals, didn’t get that way by being dummies and giving it away without requiring some type of assurances that the monetary help offered is used properly and wisely. But that was the old way. The new way, apparently, is to throw money off of the backend of a fast moving train and not even care where it lands and when guilt is used, even more gets thrown.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 5:29:36 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any nation that has not developed is unequal and can not be developed


6 posted on 02/24/2023 5:31:53 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The wealthy like their money, so no surprise. Theyd rather gas these climate folks up and give the illusion of being concerned than be honest and admit to engaging in political theatrics.


7 posted on 02/24/2023 5:40:09 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

F^^KING CROOKS!!!


8 posted on 02/24/2023 5:51:21 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Da Coyote

  Reaching for his share of the loot.

Achim Steiner - Wikiquote

  "Summary: Gibsmedat."

9 posted on 02/24/2023 6:06:21 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Waaaaaa! You guys with money aren’t sending it to corrupt dictators! Waaaaaaa!

Such hirelings and moneygrubbers ought to be ashamed of themselves. But they have no shame.


10 posted on 02/24/2023 6:06:28 AM PST by Migraine
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Wealthy nations, who are most responsible for global warming, are yet to deliver on the 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion per year to help developing nations deal with the consequences of rising global temperatures.”

Who is considered a developing nation? And why should we give them money? The answer to the second question is to keep those developing nations from developing while the wealthier nations continue to pollute the earth. I believe that is called Cap and Trade which doesn’t fix anything.


11 posted on 02/24/2023 6:44:19 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Follow the money. Who is getting rich off of this scam?


12 posted on 02/24/2023 6:45:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe they’ve privately acknowledged that if every country on Earth confiscated every penny beyond bare subsistence from every person and spent it all on “climate”, they couldn’t affect the global temperature by one degree or the sea levels by an inch.


13 posted on 02/24/2023 7:58:54 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: dfwgator

“Follow the money. Who is getting rich off of this scam?”

The companies that will be allowed to keep polluting while the American taxpayer is on the hook for the cap and trade expenses. Also, the tin pot dictators who will throw their country into further poverty while they pad their swiss bank accounts. And Al Gore, John Kerry and the WEF.


14 posted on 02/24/2023 8:38:04 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Loot fixes global warming? Learn something new everyday.


15 posted on 02/24/2023 10:18:58 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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