Global Climate Change fund receives 9.6bn

[acidohm]

Thirty nations meeting in Berlin have pledged $9.3bn (£6bn) for a fund to help developing countries prepare for climate change.

The Climate Fund was to have held at least $10bn by the end of 2014, so the pledge is just shy of the target.

The South Korea-based fund aims to help nations invest in efficient energy and sensible technology.

It is also designed to help them build up defences against increasing snowfall, reduced growing seasons and frozen pipes

Rich nations previously vowed that by 2020, developing countries would get $100bn (£64bn) a year from such a fund.

The US had already pledged $3bn and Japan $1.5bn. The UK, Germany and France have promised about $1bn each, and Sweden more than $500m million.

BBC news

[kiwistonewall]

A pledge isn't actually real money - and what is the value of a political promise?
Past pledges to "fight poverty" etc have failed to deliver.
These pledges are to boost political popularity with the masses.

[flearider]

It is also designed to help them build up defences against increasing snowfall, reduced growing seasons and frozen pipes
that darn warming making it cold ..

[sigurdur]

Ya can pledge all one wants, but if the coffer is empty.....And boy, the US coffer is empty.

[acidohm]

Apologies for altering key words to make it sound less warmist bias, I mean why shouldn't climate change include a drop in temp??

[walnut]

Climate Change, why not co-opt a natural process, that we always knew about (that climate "changes"), then accuse us of denying it. Then put a gun to our heads and collect money from us by force.