UN Climate Change Secretariat is 30 million euros short

There is a big hole in the budget of the UNFCCC’s Climate Secretariat: the UN agency is currently short about 30 million euros, Executive Director Simon Stiell said at the opening of the SB58 climate conference on Monday. The two-year budget for 2024 and 2025 is to be discussed and adopted at the meeting in Bonn. It originally totaled about 320 million euros and included about 650 positions. But in the meantime, according to internal UN information, 140 of the nearly UNFCCC-200 states are behind in their voluntary contributions, which are based on their economic strength – in some cases, with millions.