COP 26: where are the 100 billion?

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, third from right, and other activists at the UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday November 8, 2021. AP - Alastair Grant

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

One of the subjects which crisps the negotiations in Glasgow between the rich countries and the most vulnerable countries, it is the financing.

Industrialized countries have pledged to provide financial assistance to developing countries to adapt to the growing consequences of climate change and to develop low-carbon economies.

But the funds mobilized are too low and they do not arrive quickly enough in the countries which badly need them. 

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Guests:

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Yannick Glemarec

, executive director of the

green fund

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Ali Hamdou Dorsouma

, director of the climate change department at the

African Development Bank 

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Tosi Mpanu mpanu

, senior negotiator for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Aïssatou Diouf

in charge of international climate policies at

Enda

energy and CAN coordinator in Central and West Africa 

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