54 percent Latin Americans believe climate change could force them to move to another region According to a European Investment Bank (EIB) poll, 88 percent are in favor of stricter government measures that will force them to be climate-respectful.

This is the main conclusion of A. survey published this Monday by the European Bank and held last May sample of 13 thousand 500 people from 13 countries Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).

The survey also shows that 91 percent of those surveyed believe that climate change is affecting their daily lives.

The study also shows that the region has a relatively low percentage of climate change deniers, with an average of 5 percent per country, ranging from 9 percent in Argentina to 2 percent in Costa Rica and more 76 percent cite human actions as the main cause of climate change. like burning fossil fuels.

“The results of the EIB Climate Study for Latin America and the Caribbean highlight the strong public awareness that the transition to a green economy can be a driver of economic growth. At the EIB, we are committed to helping the region accelerate its transition to a green economy and build resilience to the impacts of climate change,” said the EIB Vice President. Head of climate department Ambroise Fayol.

UN urges rich countries to meet their climate finance commitments

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Simon Still, called for increasing climate finance in developing countries and demanded that rich countries keep their promises at the first African Climate Summit (ACS).

“First, we have to decide finances. Fighting climate change, like everything else in life, costs money. Finance should be seen in the context of mitigation and adaptation above all else,” Still said at the opening of a summit co-hosted by the Government of Kenya and the African Union (AU) in Nairobi.

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The meeting began with a ministerial day, but will bring together until Wednesday, September 6, in the capital of Kenya more than twenty heads of state and African governments, as well as leaders from other regions, representatives of international organizations and representatives of civil society and the private sector.

The ACS is held at the Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) in parallel to United Nations-sponsored African Climate Week from Monday to Friday of the same week.

“We need to see immediate fulfillment of the $100 billion promise, a doubling of adaptation funding (for poor countries) and a replenishment of the Green Climate Fund,” the executive secretary explained.

(EFE)