UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris – Destined to Fail or Succeed?

... special Annex to the Convention have been donors of international finance. However, since 1992 many other countries gained capacity to provide funds. China recently pledged approximately 3 billion US dollars for developing countries to help them address climate change. As for Russia, the country should also use an opportunity to provide climate finance in order to increase its soft power in poorer countries. This could for example be directed to Central Asian countries which are particularly vulnerable to climate change. A ...