UN development official calls for more funding to help poor nations cope with climate change
By APWednesday, December 2, 2009
UN official calls for funds for climate change
NAIROBI, Kenya — The chief of the U.N.’s global development network says proposals to put up billions of dollars to help poor nations deal with the effects of climate change are only a start.
Helen Clark told The Associated Press Wednesday that poor nations will need more than the $10 billion a year being proposed to cope with the impact of climate change.
Clark is the administrator of the U.N. Development Program. The agency operates in 166 countries, funding anti-poverty programs.
About 100 world leaders meet this month in Copenhagen for a summit expected to produce a framework deal to replace an existing one that has limited targets to reduce carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for warming the atmosphere. That treaty expires in 2012.
