16th October 202229th October 2022 mathew carr

The $500 billion climate loss hoisted upon the world’s most vulnerable — and counting

After losing $500 billion since the year 2000, the world’s most vulnerable countries are not being heard.

At @V20Group ministerial, @MohamedNasheed relays striking statistics:

Climate change has eliminated ⅕ of V20 countries' wealth, $500bn, since 2000.

For most V20 countries, these losses exceed their growth: they're getting poorer because of climate impacts. pic.twitter.com/wAUaTyA7ll
— Joe Thwaites (@joethw8s) October 16, 2022

Multilateral Development Banks to Help Fill Climate-Trillions Gap, But There Are Key Risks for Taxpayers Around World (2)

@IMFNews @KGeorgieva goes back to the challenge of @TheCVF youth ambassador and her thoughts of her grandchildren: If you don’t know what to do on climate, just put pictures up of your family, think of them and do the right thing
— V20 Group of Finance Ministers (@V20Group) October 16, 2022

Oil producers asked to boost contribution to climate action in call for more ambition:

As @oofmghana chairs the V20 Ministers’ mtg, he invokes a message from Ghanaian poet @nakeeyat for more serious response to the impact of climate change on emerging economies like Ghana. pic.twitter.com/ZEPIiS6fSw
— Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) October 16, 2022

family of four walking at the street — Photo by Emma Bauso on Pexels.com

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