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The G7 countries aren’t just most of the world’s richest democracies. They’re also many of the world’s biggest carbon polluters.
Climate change is sure to be on the table at the annual G7 meeting in southwest England this week in particular, the need to make what UK prime minister Boris Johnson called in May “a substantial pile of cash” available for poorer countries that are bearing the brunt of climate impacts they did little to cause.
The G7 is already taking steps forward on climate
In the past two months, G7 governments have taken some important steps forward on climate finance. On May 21, the group’s environment ministers said they would “phase out new direct government support for carbon intensive international fossil fuel energy,” although they didn’t specify a timeline.
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Welcomed by some as a solid choice, the appointment of Martin Griffiths as the UN’s next humanitarian chief is seen by others as a missed opportunity for transforming an aid sector being urged to listen to – and become more representative of – affected people.
Diplomats and aid sources told The New Humanitarian that Griffiths, currently its peace envoy for Yemen, would later today be chosen to replace Mark Lowcock as the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator – the fifth Briton in a row to hold the post.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres picked Griffiths after two rounds of interviews, according to humanitarian officials familiar with the process. The post has been traditionally held by British people as part of a five-way division of key UN jobs between permanent UN Security Council members China, France, Russia, the UK, and the United States.
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