IMF Urges Wealthy Nations To Assist Poor Countries In Addressing Climate Change

The Guardian: Do more to help poor nations cope with climate change, IMF tells rich countries
“The International Monetary Fund has told rich countries they must do more to help poor nations cope with climate change or suffer from the weaker global growth and higher migration flows that will inevitably result. In a chapter released ahead of the publication of next month’s World Economic Outlook, the Washington-based IMF said low-income countries had contributed little to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and could not afford to tackle the problem from their own meagre resources…” (Elliot, 9/28).

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