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Powerful Nations Withhold Climate Aid, Trample World's Poor
The global aid group Oxfam says the world's poorest countries are missing out on aid earmarked for climate change programs at the expense of emerging superpowers China, India and Brazil.
Oxfam's analysis finds one-third of international money aimed at climate programs went to the three major emerging nations, while the world's poorest 49 countries got just one-eighth.
The findings come from an Oxfam briefing analysing climate change aid controlled by the Global Environment Facility between 1991 and 2010.
The poorest 49 countries were given $450 million in climate aid out of $3.5 billion available. China, India and Brazil received $1.2 billion between them from the same pool.
Oxfam Australia's climate change adviser, Kelly Dent, said ''poor countries are feeling the worst impacts of climate change but are not getting their fair share of current climate finance". The briefing found just 7.5 per cent of climate change aid helped countries adapt for the impact of climate change, while 83 per cent of climate finance went towards mitigating carbon emissions.
That means only $220 million was spent on national climate change adaptation plans, such as drought-proofing crops, although $2 billion was needed.
Oxfam said climate aid was controlled by 20 funds and programs, but a single entity needed to be set up by United Nations climate negotiations.
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Show AllLet me see if I get this right; the money is to do something positive about the climate but these countries use the money to get around the shitty rules they do have and in the process screw the poor...Again. Tony
Exactly.
The article is in the 'Water is wet' category.
And the 'powerful nations' meme is a massive dodge. In all nations there exists poverty. The elite, who compose a ridiculously tiny sliver of humanity, are the ones who should have the finger pointed squarely at them for all of the abuse. But, then again, the elite own the media.
While we're talking about the elite and what they do, I'm passing this on to you as a heads up for a possible false flag coming November 9, 2010 or thereabouts.
You all remember where you were on 9/11, 2001 right?
Mark your calender for 11/9, 2010 (what a coincidence - all the same numbers in a slightly altered sequence - and it's on a tuesday, as well). Our president will be in India. The CERN collider is going to speed up a mess of lead protons to near the speed of light which changes them into quarks (which some scientists believe will morph into "strangelets" (nasty things that create black holes) and smack them against each other (from opposite directs) to recreate (on an alleged tiny scale) the big bang. Supposedly, particles will be formed and released from this collision which haven't been created since the big bang about 14 billion years ago. Isn't that a nice science project? All the dire warnings about massive earthquakes and worse may be a massive psyop.
Something bad may happen HERE in the USA and the CERN craziness makes a great cover.
No tinfoil necessary. The world won't end. However, the crooks are looking for another big rug to hide derivative and other financial losses (remember the 2 trillion Rumsfield couldn't find the day before 9/11? - they never did find them - what's 2 trillian among friends, right?). With the president out of the country, it's also a great PR way to morph Biden or Hillary Clinton or someone else they want to elevate into a national hero.
Our economy is in real trouble. Bernake just said as much. Our elite ALWAYS try to make us pay for their thievery. I wish it wasn't so.
I hope CD will post this crucial article that goes deeper into the divide of the poor and rich.. and destruction of the middle class..
"The Road to World War III - The Global Banking Cartel Has One Card Left to Play" by David DeGraw and published by Global Research at this following url address:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21221
I may link to this article too on more evidence of energy misguided deceptions at my site www.FlybyNews.com