COP29: Swiss NGOs call for strong financial support

A few days before the annual UN climate conference in Baku (Azerbaijan), Alliance Sud and WWF are calling for $1,000 billion a year to help the countries of the South. Switzerland is called upon to do more. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The UN's annual climate conference, which opens on Monday and runs until November 22, is due to conclude with a new target for financial aid to developing countries for the period after 2025. This new target will replace the $100 billion annual target set in 2009, which was painfully missed until 2022. "It's clear that the new collective financing target to be ratified at COP29 requires a completely different dimension from the one adopted so far," says Laurent Matile of Alliance Sud in a statement issued on Thursday. The Swiss aid NGOs point out that it is the poorest who are most affected by the climate crisis. Translated from French by DeepL/mga How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked ...