Poor nations ask for $2bn climate fund

At the close of last week’s UN climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany, 49 of the world’s least developed countries asked richer nations for $2 billion to help them adapt to climate change, in an attempt to fulfill a promise made eight years ago in which the richer nations promised to support “immediate and urgent” adaptation projects. According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the Least Developed Countries are demanding a pledge of up to $2 billion to a fund that helps the nations complete projects that fall under their national adaptation plans, of which only a handful of those identified as “urgent” have been funded so far.