COP29: Swiss NGOs call for strong financial support
COP29: Swiss NGOs call for strong financial support
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Listening: COP29: Swiss NGOs call for strong financial support
A few days before the annual UN climate conference in Baku (Azerbaijan), Alliance Sud and WWF are calling for $1,000 billion a year to help the countries of the South. Switzerland is called upon to do more.
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COP29: les ONG suisses demandent un soutien financier fort
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The UN’s annual climate conference, which opens on Monday and runs until November 22, is due to conclude with a new target for financial aid to developing countries for the period after 2025.
This new target will replace the $100 billion annual target set in 2009, which was painfully missed until 2022.
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The Swiss aid NGOs point out that it is the poorest who are most affected by the climate crisis.
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