Non-governmental attendees from Latin America and the Caribbean called on industrialized nations to honor their pledges to boost climate funding for developing nations. (Photo by Daniel Gutman)
Latin American and Caribbean government officials at December’s COP28 climate summit took aim at developed nations for failing to control greenhouse-gas emissions and neglecting to deliver sufficient climate-change adaptation and mitigation funding to the Global South. But their interventions at the conference, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 in Dubai, were undermined by a striking lack of coordination of the kind they appeared to begin to show at last year’s COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. At COP27, the 32 member nations of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) issued a joint call for industrialized countries to fulfill their climate-funding promises to developing nations. Little such coordination was in evidence in Dubai or in the run-up to the conference. Experts say that while aggressive collective lobbying by the region’s countries would not have in itself changed the tenor of the COP28 meeting, the... [Log in to read more]
