Raise the green fund proposed for developing countries from $10bn to atleast $100bn
We, the undersigned, petition the Prime Minister to Raise the green fund proposed for developing countries from $10bn to atleast $100bn
The proposal brought by the UK to the Copenhagen conference of $10bn from developed nations to all developing nations as legally binding within 6 months is not nearly enough.
Our country spent $65bn on arms in 2008, so a measly $10bn a year - of which the UK will only pay a small part - to go to the whole of the developing world to combat climate change is just not acceptable as short term aid. Atleast $100bn a year would be adequate short term aid. This is the figure that should be legally binding within 6 months. Remember, this is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced.
The UK is a powerful, wealthy country, and we are one of the very few countries that can say the threat posed to us by climate change is relatively minor. It just isn’t fair for our country, with its history of industrialisation and empire, to pretend to be moral by offering a sum as low as $10bn a year.
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