The report released on Tuesday by Oxfam shows not only that the need for weather-related aid from the United Nations is far greater today than 20 years ago, but that donor countries are failing to keep pace with spiraling costs from the climate crisis.
The amount of funding needed to support UN appeals is up by more than 800% in 20 years, as global warming sweeps through.
In 2021 alone, extreme weather events worldwide took an estimated $329 billion economic toll – the third highest on record, and almost twice the total aid that prosperous countries gave to poorer countries that same year.
Between the years 2000 and 2002, the United Nations used an average of 1.6 billion dollars annual funding to finance humanitarian initiatives following the onset of extreme weather events.
On first day of #BonnClimateConference, @UNFCCC chief @PEspinosaC tells media time has come to address #lossanddamage "in an open, constructive and respectful manner", need progress on making Santiago Network operational and on new Glasgow dialogue on finance in run-up to #COP27
— Megan Rowling (@meganrowling) June 6, 2022
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