Finance took centre stage at the COP27 climate talks on Wednesday, with UN experts publishing a list of projects worth $120 billion that investors could back to help poorer countries cut emissions and adapt to the impacts of A $3 billion water transfer project between Lesotho and Botswana and a $10 million plan to improve the public water system in Mauritius were among dozens of projects listed, including 19 in Africa.
in external financing every year by 2030, and then match that with their own funds, in order to meet the world's goal of preventing runaway climate change. We won’t get anywhere near unlocking the scale of finance developing economies need if everyone continues to pass the buck. to poorer countries in 2021, with private investors contributing $13 billion, a recent report from the lenders said.
When asked in Wednesday's event about his past comments seen as downplaying climate change, Malpass again dismissed the allegation that he is a climate change denier.