Developing Countries Need Financial Aid To Fight Global Warming
posted by: GinaMarie Cheeseman 27 days ago
Developing countries need financial help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change. The recently elected Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama offered Indonesia a $400 million loan to mitigate climate change, according to the Japan Times Online.
The Japan Times reported that Hatoyama made the offer to Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last weekend during a meeting at the Asia-Pacific summit in Thailand. Yudhoyono thanked Hatoyama for the offer, the Japan Times reported.
“I would like the yen loan to be used for measures to tackle climate change, and hopefully it would be used in a measurable and verifiable manner,” Hatoyama reportedly said.
UK Chancellor Alistair Darling last week asked EU countries to commit to 10 billion euros a year in funding to developing countries as part of a 100 billion euro global package. Darling said the UK will commit to provide one billion, but no agreement was reached. The deal will be finalized next week by EU heads of state.
Bairbre de Brun, an Irish politician representing Northern Ireland in the EU parliament, said developing countries suffer most from climate change but are not responsible for it. “An expression of genuine and practical solidarity is needed. Developing countries must be given the financial and technical support, on top of overseas development aid, to help them deal with climate change,” Brun said.
Developing countries will suffer most
Developing countries are facing “vastly more daunting challenges than those confronting developed countries and in a far more constrained environment,” a recent report by the UN Department of Economic and Social affairs stated. A 2006 report by Nicholas Stern calculated that a two degree Celsius rise in global temperatures would cost about one percent of world GDP, but the recently released World Bank’s World Development Report said it will cost Africa about four percent of GDP and India five percent.
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology forecast that the yield of main Indian crops would decrease four to nine percent over the next 30 years because of climate change.
Purdue University researchers studied the potential economic effects of climate events like heat waves, drought, and heavy rains on 16 developing countries. The researchers found that urban workers in Bangladesh, Mexico, and Zambia are most at risk.
“Bangladesh, Mexico and Zambia showed the greatest percentage of the population entering poverty in the wake of extreme drought, with an additional 1.4 percent, 1.8 percent and 4.6 percent of their populations being impoverished by future climate extremes, respectively,” Purdue professor and co-head of the study, Thomas Hertel said.
Hertel added, "This translates to an additional 1.8 million people impoverished per country for Bangladesh and Mexico and an additional half million people in Zambia.”
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I live in Africa and I cannot comment on the "financial aid required" aspect of this post. BUT I can tell you that most of Africa is already suffering from long term drought and crippling lack of water. Apart from the political considerations that have given fully operative farms to people who are no longer producing ANYTHING - the lack of water has caused hunger, refugees and thousands of deaths. As Africa has contributed less than 4% to the global problem and is suffering the worst (already) something needs to be done to help. YES we are hugely overpopulated and YES the populace is not educated (or does not want to take heed of what they are told) about having dozens of kids they cannot support. But does that mean they should be starved to death??????
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This farce is being exposed for what it is, a farce. It's an obvious attempt to redistribute wealth on a global scale. We already have an unbearable burden within our own country. Why do you think throwing unaccountable money at a country that obviously cannot manage it's resources will help? In what way have we caused their poverty? My goodness, when are you people going to wake up?
What is the solution? Technology will eventually replace the carbon based energy generators.
It's hard to imagine we will ever have the ability to stop these third world mudhut countries from overpopulation, but it's a nice thought. It doesn't take an education to reproduce.
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Maybe we might want to think about educating ourselves about the climate justice movement, and re-think placing the blame on poor people, who had no part in creating man-made climate change. But because of their poverty (due to exploitation by us) they are at the most effect of it. They (those who reside in the global south, especially the women and the children) are not the problem, we are. It is unjust that poor people should bear an undue burden of the impacts of climate change or the global adjustments needed to address it.
There was a bill passed recently by the House of Reps that fell very short of the 3.5 billion needed to aid those most impacted. Please urge the Senate to help poor people adapt to climate change. Don't take the easy way out by blaming the victims. Educate and act positively yourself.
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Maybe we might want to think about educating ourselves about the climate justice movement, and re-think placing the blame on poor people, who had no part in creating man-made climate change. But because of their poverty (due to exploitation by us) they are at the most effect of it. They (those who reside in the global south, especially the women and the children) are not the problem, we are. It is unjust that poor people should not bear an undue burden of the impacts of climate change or the global adjustments needed to address it.
There was a bill passed recently by the House of Reps that fell very short of the 3.5 billion needed to aid those most impacted. Please urge the Senate to help poor people adapt to climate change. Don't take the easy way out by blaming the victims. Educate and act positively yourself.
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I couldn't agree more with Juliet D. Overpopulation is a grim reality in most, if not all, of the poorest countries. When there's no population control, the situation will just get worse. People are just not getting the education they need, which is so essential in tackling the problems that lead to global warming. When it comes to making a choice between starving their children and destroying the environment (which sometimes they don't even realise they're doing!), all parents will not think twice about choosing the latter.
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Well since global warming is a debunked theory, where is the money really going?
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"Developing countries need financial help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change."
I would like financial help in reducing carbon, you know, especially since I live in an industrialized country, and probably produce as much pollution as 50 gazillion (obviously, an exaggeration) third-worlders and can't afford solar panels or an electric car. I agree, that we should all go green/cut back on carbon. But, financial issues everywhere are holding people back from "going green" as much as they can, and shouldn't we first focus on reducing pollution in those countries which pollute/plunder the Earth's resources the most? Is it fair that we hypocritically tell them "how it should be done"?
From what I've researched so far, world organizations have given "loans" or tried to help third-world countries only making things terrible. Watch "Flow," "Planet Earth - The Future," the link I put about their "save the world" (yeah right) GM seed in India, etc... All I'm saying is that we should look in the mirror at our own imperfections and problems at home before preaching/forcing our "righteous" systems on others.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6jpkDNxtI&feature=related
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This is BS. Does everyone also know about the world coalition that is being formed to force all the developed countries into a world government that has to give millions of dollars to "help" third world countries with the climate??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQvhdCyhe4
This website used to have real causes. Now it seems like a media outlet promoting propaganda.
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The subject is very complex with many aspects. One certainly is what Juliet D. wrote, there must be birth control and education on living simply for all humans. There must be economic justice and sharing of renewable resources. Those monetarily poor are as valuable as those with more financial resources. Working together, listening to needs so important.
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