Welcome to Climate fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, an expert’s guide to the UN climate talks in Glasgow from The Anthill Podcast. In the first episode of this new series, we’re talking about climate finance – money pledged by the world’s richest countries to help the poorest parts of the world adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Where is it being spent and is it really working?

As hosts of COP26 – this year’s annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the UK has asked attendees to step up efforts to mobilise public and private sources of financial aid.

Developed countries agreed to raise US$100 billion a year by 2020. The most recent data only goes up to 2019, but it shows that just under US$80 billion was raised that year.

Listen to the entire podcast at The Conversation:

https://theconversation.com/cop26-billions-are-being-spent-tackling-climate-change-where-is-it-all-going-climate-fight-podcast-part-1-169120

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