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TWN Info Service on Climate Change (June10/01) Dear friends, As you are aware, financing for actions to battle climate change is being channeled particularly to the World Bank. Below is an NGO initiative to call on the Obama Administration to desist from this and support instead a financial mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Deadline for signatures
is 10 PM Thank you! Best regards, Dear President Obama: The success of global climate negotiations – and the fight against climate change – largely depend on developed countries meeting their responsibilities to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars each year to support developing countries to deal with global warming and to transition to sustainable and equitable economies. This money will only be as effective as the institutions through which it is channeled. We urge you and your negotiating team to publicly state that the World Bank and regional development banks should not have a role in managing global climate finance. Funding to fight climate change must be managed by an institution that is governed democratically, has environmental integrity, and ensures the participation of local communities and peoples who suffer the impacts of climate change. The World Bank is not that institution. · The World Bank’s track record of imposing policy conditions and programs on developing countries and its undemocratic governance structures seriously discredit the institution. Developing countries, who will bare the heaviest burden from climate change, are the least represented inside the Bank. · The World Bank continues to be a top financier of fossil fuels. As of April 2010, it had already hit a record high for annual fossil fuel lending, with (US) $4.7 billion primarily for coal. · The World Bank is not effective in ensuring that communities and peoples determine the policies and programs that impact them. There is an alternative.
We call on the Sincerely, Endorsing organizations
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