Washington has not delivered on its promise to the Green Climate Fund, a tool to avert catastrophic climate change. “We cannot afford for every country to follow these industrialisation pathways that the developed world has done,” said Joe Thwaites, an international climate finance advocate at the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council. The GCF is not the only mechanism for climate …
The Leticia Pact signed by seven South American Amazonian nations was supposed to protect the world’s largest rainforest. ‘Advance decisively’ Three months after the Leticia Pact was agreed upon by seven countries that are home to the Amazon basin – Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname – leaders created an “action plan” to implement its 52 points. “There’s …
