Pay Up: U.N. Demands Payments to Fund Climate Schemes
17 Jan 2021 The U.N. body charged with making the Paris climate deal work scolded the global community Sunday for not making good on promises of financial aid. The call to “pay up” came as President-elect Joe Biden readies to drag the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement U.S. President Donald Trump exited in 2019, as Breitbart News reported. AFP reports the U.N. Environment Programme Adaptation Gap (UNEP) said current finance levels of around $30 billion annually for adaptation were far adrift of the $70 billion promised and the time has come for more money to be sent. UNEP said t...