UNDP WATCH: At UN there is no shame -- despite the failure of Rio+20, the UN is going ahead and setting up the Green Climate Fund (GCF) eventhough they have no fund$

Friday, August 3, 2012

At UN there is no shame -- despite the failure of Rio+20, the UN is going ahead and setting up the Green Climate Fund (GCF) eventhough they have no fund$

First UN climate fund board meeting set for August 23
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - The first board meeting of the United Nations' Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be held on August 23 to 25, an official at the fund's interim secretariat said on Thursday, five months later than it was originally planned. The fund is designed to help channel up to $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to climate change. However, the fund is an empty shell after last year's U.N. climate talks failed to make solid progress on sources of finance and the global ...

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H.E. Dirk Niebel - German Development Minister

"I take the accusations made in the media concerning corruption and breach of fiduciary duty at the Global Fund very seriously and I am sure that the Fund will clarify the matter without delay. Germany is one of the biggest donors to the Global Fund. I have therefore seen to it that a special review will be held. I have frozen all further disbursements to the Fund until matters have been fully clarified, and I will ask a representative of the Fund to come to the BMZ to discuss the matter."

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