Who should pay to tackle climate change in developing countries?
Tackling climate change effectively is going to require serious sums of money. Developing countries, many of whom are on the front-line in the battle against global warming, will require large amounts of external public finance to adapt to climate change, combat deforestation and move to low-carbon pathways out of poverty. Rich countries, who have largely caused the climate crisis through their historical greenhouse gas missions, will have to find a way to pay for the true costs of their pollution. Rich countries have amassed an enormous
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