Commentary regarding climate finance at COP30, in the Associated Press (AP)

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From COP30 in Belem, analysis and comments from IMAL's Executive Director Iskander Erzini Vernoit, are featured in the Associated Press (AP), also carried by ABC News and various other media outlets, regarding dynamics around climate finance and Article 9.1 in particular:

“Various apparent impasses still remain, and chief among these from an African point of view is the unwillingness of the EU and other rich countries to engage on their obligation to provide climate finance,” Erzini Vernoit said. (See here)

India’s tough stand on global climate funding is welcomed by other countries, said Iskander Erzini Vernoit, director of the Moroccan think tank Imal Initiative for Climate and Development. He said that wealthy countries’ commitment to climate finance “has been weak at best, and certainly not commensurate with the urgency of keeping global warming to safe levels.” (See here.)