Reacting to civil society’s new understanding of the US’ legal strategy on climate finance, Teresa Anderson, the Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid International, said:
“This is a bad faith move.
Developing countries came to COP29 hoping for the nations that have caused the climate crisis to show willing and start to put forward the necessary cash to address our planet’s escalating crisis.
But it’s now clear that the US is trying to claim that the current text would absolve them of legal obligations to provide climate finance. The world’s biggest historical polluters are trying to use devious legalese to get a free pass from all responsibility. This interpretation would pull the rug out from under developing countries.
For COP29 to unleash the climate action the world is crying for, it needs the rich countries that have caused the crisis to provide the real grant-based finance that can keep the planet safe.”
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