International Climate Change Financing: Needs, Sources, and Delivery Methods

Lattanzio, Richard K. ; Leggett, Jane A.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Climatic changes;    Global climate change;    Global warming;    Air pollution;    International finance;   

RP-ID  :  R41808
RP-ID  :  R41808_2011May5

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses the domestic and international efforts to increase foreign assistance to address climate change. Proponents maintain that such assistance could help promote low-emissions and high-growth economic development in lower-income countries, while simultaneously protecting the more vulnerable countries from the effects of a changing climate. The fundamental dispute concerning international financing for climate change centers upon who should pay for it and how.