Climate finance: Which countries should • Table.Briefings

The consensus of many studies: The US must do more for global climate action. Shown here is the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

The debate on the hottest topic at COP29 has begun: What payments for global climate action would be fair? There is no answer, but there are tendencies: More countries and sectors should pay than before, especially the USA. As a donor, Germany is one of the few bright spots.

Three months before the start of the crucial COP29 in Baku, the serious debate on the structure of future global climate financing has now begun with concrete proposals. Last week, the ideas of various countries and groups on how the new financial target (NCQG) to be adopted in Baku should be financed became known.

Climate finance: Which countries should pay how much

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