UN Climate Secretariat in financial trou • Table.Briefings

Head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat facing a large budget gap: Simon Stiell at the meeting in Copenhagen.

The UN Climate Secretariat is being assigned more and more tasks by its member states. However, there’s a huge deficit in the budget. This is mainly due to most countries not paying their contributions. The statistics show who’s holding back.

This year, finances will dominate international climate negotiations. „We’re talking about trillions, not billions,“ said Simon Stiell, the Secretary-General of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at the ministerial meeting in Copenhagen on March 21 on this issue.

UN Climate Secretariat in financial trouble: These countries are not paying

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