Gordon Brown said that a shortfall in the money pledged by richer countries risks disasterGlasgow’s Cop26 climate conference is at “real risk” of failing because the UK’s international aid cuts will put rich countries off investing in helping poorer nations go green, Gordon Brown has said. The former Labour prime minister said the “world leading” targets set across the UK, including in Scotland, would be rendered “seriously inadequate” without global co-operation. SponsoredWriting for The Times Red Box today, Brown said that a failure to keep pace with the 2015 Paris climate agreement and a shortfall in the money pledged by richer countries to the poorest to help them reduce emissions and adapt to climate change risk disaster. The developed nations have not yet reached the $100 billion goal for 2020 that was agreed at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference

Source: The Times June 01, 2021 00:36 UTC