350.org: Climate finance makes it onto the COP31 agenda: now developed countries must deliver

ANTALYA, TÜRKİYE: Despite resistance from developed countries the provision of climate finance was added to the agenda for COP31 but now we need those countries to step up and actually fulfill the finance commitments we need , or risk leaving countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis without the resources they urgently need to protect their communities, adapt to worsening climate impacts and transition away from fossil fuels.

Rukiya Khamis, East Africa Program Manager at 350.org, said:

“The COP Presidency has rightly emphasised that implementation must be at the heart of COP31. Getting climate finance onto the agenda is an important first win for developing countries,but now we need real commitments. Climate justice demands that those who have done the least to cause this crisis are not left to shoulder the greatest costs of tackling it - so at this COP we need to see real progress on the commitments to climate finance including the tripling of adaptation finance. Wealthy, high-polluting countries must deliver the finance they owe, so that countries on the frontlines can protect their communities, build resilience and make a just transition away from fossil fuels. One of the ways we can generate this much needed finance is by making those fossil fuel corporations, who are responsible for the climate crisis, pay via taxing their excess profits.”

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