Japan’s Kishida Pledges Up to $10 Billion in New Climate Finance
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Two days after scoring a surprisingly robust general election victory, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised up to $10 billion in additional climate finance for developing countries in a speech at COP26 in Glasgow.
Global warming wasn’t a major focus during his campaign, in which he underscored the need to narrow the economic disparities in society, recover from the pandemic and prepare for a potential fresh wave of Covid-19 infections.