The odds are growing that the cost of hosting the next COP conference will exceed the money actually delivered on all those broken climate promises.
‘Not fair’: Ghana slams West over low funding for climate change
Western countries said they will spend about $25bn by 2025 to help Africa adapt to climate change but pledged only $55m.
11 Oct 2022
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has criticised Western nations for their low financial commitment to addressing issues caused by climate change on the continent.
“$55m for 54 countries – this is not fair,” Akufo-Addo was quoted as saying by French state broadcaster RFI on Monday.
Akufo-Addo who is on a six-day visit to France where he is expected to meet President Emmanuel Macron, was referring to commitments made during a climate summit in Rotterdam last September – $23m from the United Kingdom, $15m from Norway, $10m from France and $7m from Denmark.
“The adaptation summit had the mission of mobilising $25bn by 2025 … ridiculously, while the G20 countries are responsible for 80 percent of emissions, Africa left Rotterdam with pledges of up to $55m,” the Ghanaian leader said.
The African Development Bank pledged an additional $12.5bn to support the cause.
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“It is a lot, of course, but it is derisory,” said Akufo-Addo, reminding that G20 countries “are responsible for 80 percent of [gas] emissions”.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/11/not-fair-ghana-slams-western-pledges-to-address-climate-change
I’m not sure I’d complain about $55 million, or even a fiftieth share of $55 million. But I can understand President Nana Akufo-Addo’s frustration. He was expecting a lot more.
The solution is obvious – instead of allowing themselves to be led around by the nose, the leaders of countries which expected to receive climate finance should boycott COP27, until a decent amount of money shows up.
Everyone would benefit from such a boycott – not only would African leaders finally receive a substantial amount of climate cash, Western politicians would have to start explaining to voters why they are sending billions of dollars to Africa, when there so many problems at home which need addressing.
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Of course we should send more $$s. What could go wrong?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political corruption in Ghana has been common since independence. Since 2006, Ghana‘s score and ranking on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index has improved slightly, ranked higher than Italy and Brazil.[1] However, there is a growing perception in Ghana that government-related corruption is on the rise.[1] Ghana ranked 73rd on the Corruption Perceptions Index in 2021, tied with Hungary, Kuwait, Senegal and the Solomon Islands.[2] Even though corruption in Ghana is relatively low when compared to other countries in Africa, businesses frequently quote corruption as an obstacle for doing business in the country. Corruption occurs often in locally funded contracts, companies are subject to bribes when operating in rural areas.[3]
Thanks to those CO2 emissions, the crops in his country are growing bigger and healthier.
He should be paying us.
Afrikkan corruption makes U.S. Demonunists look like tightfisted misers. As Lincoln said of one of his cabinet members, the only thing they wouldn’t steal is a red-hot stove.
hahahahah ,,,,, you get what you deserve.
How long isn’t Chinese. It’s the question we should all be asking about the attention paid to the climatastrophe hoax.
Boy, oh boy, the Demmunists sure know how to make conservative pundits take their eye off the ball. AGW is a hoax; Covid pandemic .. hoax; Ukraine war, cynical anti-Russia fear-mongering by WEF; “gender” issues = destruction of individual morals and self-worth; and .. the list is as long as the evening news headlines. Everything TUGLI (The Usual Gang of Lying Idiots) throws out there is chaff designed to keep us blind to the take-over intended – and almost a fait accompli – by billionaire puppet masters. There is no way to vote your way out of this as long as all of the left’s gambits are not named for what they are – distractions intended to confuse.
As to Gore-bull warming, wake me when the seas rise.
No country on earth has broken the strong link between wealth and CO2 emissions.
If the mark is dumb enough to believe the con, why should the con-man be upset with the swindle?
Africa got took. Complain all you want. The UN can’t deliver the promised funds.
99% of any money sent to Africa will boomerang into Swiss, Cayman, etc. bank accounts
When will these morons realize Climate Change is a hoax? They’ll probably get even more delusional about their new religion – that’s how religions behave.
It’s like throwing your money out of a window on a windy day. And hoping some of it blows back in.
Yeah, when the wind is blowing AWAY from the window…
Gotta be, or at least close to, the all-time greatest collection of grifters.
Operators of pyramid scams never want to pay our large funds. It is when scams have to start paying out large amounts of money that such scams disintegrate.
Graft.
Eric,
It gets quite confusing as to what account the unpaid money mentioned here belongs.
As I understand it there are three compartments, so to speak-
(1) The Green Fund of $100 billion annually to be paid pursuant to the Paris Accord.
(2) “Loss and Damage” monies to be paid by Annex 1 Developed countries (28 in all) to Developing Countries (some 165 countries at last count).
Here,Pakistan has asked for $400 billion annually but China/ India has upped the ante to $1 trillion annually,reportedly.
(3) A rather amorphous claim for “ Climate Reparations” again to be paid by Developed Countries for the “historical injustice” occasioned by the Industrial Revolution.
Whether (3) merges with (2) I am uncertain, but I suspect not.
Under (1), the US under Biden has promised some $15 billion annually at Glasgow, the EU has ‘committed’ some $23 billion Euros, and some chump change has been promised by the UK,Canada,Australia,New Zealand and a handful of others.
The $55 million here must come under (2) I assume.
I can hardly wait for the “mud wrestling” over promised but unpaid funding at the forthcoming COP 27 at Cairo.
The word is Adaptation, and not “Adaption” (sic).
Who are the idiots pledging $55 million to flush down the toilet?! It should be ZERO.
THERE IS NO ‘CLIMATE CRISIS,’ aside from the very real crisis that will result if the idiots who think there IS a “climate crisis” implementing their worse-than-useless non-solutions.
Climate change is not man made.
There is no such thing as global warming. This is about control and money.
Wait a minute…doesn’t the Presidents of Ghana go by the nickname Rhea?
I heard he does.
Perhaps a little Amoxicillin for his illness will fix his tertiary condition and his mental status will return.
Climate change is the last thing Africa should be concerned about. They should be working on doing something about ruthless dictators that murder their subjects, genocide, islamist militias who kidnap and murder countless people, food shortages, infrastructure, pollution and the fact that China is taking over Africa and stealing all of the natural resources.
I agree – more than $1M each for countries to waste not doing anything about a mythical crisis is not fair.
It’s like the way I do 1 million pushups…. 1, 2, 3, 1 million.
Really. Would I lie to you?