More vaccines, climate help needed for poorer nations, say UN, Non-Aligned Movement By Reuters
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BELGRADE (Reuters), Developing countries and the Head of the United Nations demanded Monday a more equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccins as well as increased funding by rich nations to aid the less fortunate adapt to a warming world.
At a commemoration of the Non-Aligned Movement’s 60th Anniversary, Ghana, the founder of NAM, lashed out at global powers who failed to distribute vaccines fairly. It suggested poor nations are at the mercy of wealthy states stockpiling supply.
Nana Akufo Akufo Aduo, President of Ghana, said to the Belgrade meeting that “we are observers of global power plays and are subjected to the benevolence de powerful countries who release their hoarded [vaccine] supplies at their pace.”
Antonio Guterres, U.N. Secretary General, urged rich nations to give half the money they donate to developing countries for climate change. This will allow them to help those nations adapt to a warmer world.
Guterres stated that fifty percent of climate financing provided by developing countries and multilateral banks must be dedicated to adaptation and resilience in a video message to the participants of a meeting lasting two days.
As the world gets ready for COP26, wealthy nations will be under greater pressure to fulfill a 2009 pledge to send $100 billion a yearly to finance a sufficient response from developing countries to rising temperatures.
The adaptation sector has typically accounted only for 20% of the money channeled by rich countries to aid poorer nations in managing climate change. In 2017, it was $30 billion annually.
The majority of the remaining funds have been used to reduce climate-heating emission, including by using renewable energy.
Guterres warned wealthy economies that they must intensify their assistance to developing countries, in order to fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
He called upon the Group of Twenty rich countries to contribute more to the global vaccination against the coronavirus.
NAM was formed by the leaders of India and Yugoslavia as well as Ghana, Ghana, Indonesia and Ghana in 1961.
It now has 120 members and 29 observers.
Serbia is an observer of the NAM.
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