PhoenixSerenity#UNClimateChange secretariat told Reuters it is up to the countries themselves to decide whether to impose uniform standards.
Although a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie and an airport expansion don't seem like efforts to combat global warming, nothing prevented the #governments that funded them from reporting them as such to the #UnitedNations and counting them toward their giving total.
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#TotalFarce #ClimateFinancing #NoAccountability #Corrupt #Useless
What has climate finance paid for? Gelato shops, a coal plant and more
Industrialized nations have pledged $100 billion US per year to help poorer nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change. But what does that 'climate finance' pay for? Among other things, a coal plant, gelato shops, and hotel and airport expansions, Reuters and Big Local News have found.