Vulnerable small island states and developing countries stand to gain access to billions of dollars of climate finance with the aid of a new Commonwealth initiative.
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub, hosted by the Government of Mauritius, was officially opened today by Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth at a signing ceremony in New York.
It will help governments dealing with the ravaging effects of climate change to draw down funding from a global fund target of $100 billion a year by 2020.
Read the Commonwealth Secretariat's press release.
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Vulnerable small island states and developing countries stand to gain access to billions of dollars of climate finance with the aid of a new Commonwealth initiative.
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub, hosted by the Government of Mauritius, was officially opened today by Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth at a signing ceremony in New York.
It will help governments dealing with the ravaging effects of climate change to draw down funding from a global fund target of $100 billion a year by 2020.
- See more at: http://thecommonwealth.org/media/press-release/commonwealth-hub-unlock-billions-climate-finance-developing-countries#sthash.NiS2WfDj.dpufVulnerable small island states and developing countries stand to gain access to billions of dollars of climate finance with the aid of a new Commonwealth initiative.
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub, hosted by the Government of Mauritius, was officially opened today by Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth at a signing ceremony in New York.
It will help governments dealing with the ravaging effects of climate change to draw down funding from a global fund target of $100 billion a year by 2020.
- See more at: http://thecommonwealth.org/media/press-release/commonwealth-hub-unlock-billions-climate-finance-developing-countries#sthash.NiS2WfDj.dpuf