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Fair Climate Response, 86 Billion

Prensa Latina

Bali, Indonesia, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) The UN Development Program (UNDP) stated in a report in this capital that the entity needs $86 billion to stop the advance of a segregated adaptation to climate change.

The 2007-2008 HRI document entitled "Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World," emphasizes the extensive differences in financing adaptation.

The text warns that the world advances towards that segregation with wealthy countries strongly investing in climate infrastructure and the poorest ones abandoned to their fate with short resources.

The release alerts that those inequalities in the capacity to analyze climate change will strongly boost global inequalities.

The annual recompilation of the UNDP Human Development group was distributed among over 10,000 delegates from 187 countries attending the two-week UN conference in this Indonesian island.

The Convention, in its decisive phase, seeks to draw up a route map for negotiations aimed at defining a climate accord in the next two years, before concluding the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

The report's main author Kevin Watkins requests a gradual increase of finance for adaptation and stresses the need of an annual financing commitment of $86 billion for 2015.

Watkins recognizes that those figures and human costs of climate change are large, but asserts that the poor of the world are not responsible for global warming.

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