Laurie Goering
Extreme Heat Editor at Climate Resilience For All
Storyteller, optimist, science geek, climate change journalist/editor, former Chicago Tribune/Thomson Reuters Foundation
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1 week ago |
climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering
Funders of climate and development action face a gargantuan task at key gatherings over the coming weeks: working out how to move ahead when the world’s biggest aid donor is turning off the tap and causing turmoil in global financial markets. Since taking office, US President Donald Trump’s team has moved to end $54 billion in overseas aid contracts – about 90% of its spending – while also pressuring allies in Europe to shift aid budgets to defence.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering
This October, the Green Climate Fund’s board approved a spending breakthrough, agreeing to send more than $100 million to help Somalia’s farmers – battered by droughts, floods and conflict – to shore up their access to water, restore land and earn a more reliable living from their animals and crops.
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Nov 15, 2024 |
climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering
Since its last major famine more than a decade ago, Somalia has received well over a billion dollars a year in humanitarian aid. But that spending – aimed at meeting immediate basic needs for food and water in the conflict-ravaged Horn of Africa country – has not reduced demands for help, which are instead rising as climate change brings more frequent and severe floods and droughts.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering
For over a decade, Indigenous and local communities have demanded a bigger share of international funding to protect nature and the climate, as well as easier access to that money. But progress has been limited, with only 1-2 percent of such finance reaching them directly, reports show.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering
The newly appointed board of the climate finance world’s latest entry – the hard-won UN “loss and damage” fund – will likely hold its first meeting in late April after delays in agreeing members. But despite soaring needs for help, the fund itself isn’t expected to hand out any money until 2025 at the earliest, officials say.
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