Adapting to Climate Change: What's needed in poor countries, and who should pay

摘要: Climate change is forcing vulnerable communities in poor countries to adapt unprecedented climate stress. Rich countries, primarily responsible for creating the problem, must stop harming, by fast cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions, and start helping, providing finance adaptation. In developing Oxfam estimates that adaptation will cost at least $50bn each year, far more if global emissions are not cut rapidly. Urgent work necessary gain a accurate picture of costs poor. According Oxfam’s new Adaptation Financing Index, USA, European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia should contribute over 95 per cent needed. This be counted towards meeting UN-agreed target 0.7 aid. planning multi-billion dollar measures home, but date they have delivered just $48m international funds least-developed country adaptation, it as aid: an unacceptable inequity responses change.