Qatar Proposes Climate Finance to Break UN Deadlock
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Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, the Qatari diplomat chairing United Nations climate treaty talks in Doha, proposed a set of decisions to break a deadlock on discussions about climate aid and damages payments.
The proposals included an extension to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and a call for industrial nations to channel at least as much annual aid for climate-related projects in developing countries as the average for the past three years. It suggests work next year on a mechanism that would insure against conditions that developing nations say they can’t adapt to, including rising seas and droughts.