Climate Change: Financing Urgent Adaptation
Friday, 29.01.2010, 12.30 – 14.00 h
The countries that have done the least to precipitate climate change are often those faced with the greatest climatic consequences. Developing countries will require up to 200 billion euros a year to combat drought, water shortages, and floods, to limit deforestation, and to introduce climate-friendly sources of energy. It is thus of existential importance that these countries are granted immediate financial support.- How can climate-friendly adaptation measures be financed in emerging and developing countries?
- In what ways can international solutions to climate change be developed? What was the outcome of the Copenhagen Summit?
- What is the price of inaction? What is there to gain from a more radical challenge to our current understanding of growth and wealth?
Matthew Wale, Minister of Education and Human Resources, Solomon Islands
Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam GB, United Kingdom
Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation, USA
Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank, Manila
Patrick Hofstetter, Head of the Climate Policy Department, WWF Switzerland
Moderation:
Romaine Jean, Swiss Television
