Development
Climate finance and loss and damage at UNGA 81
Raised by 68 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised climate finance and loss and damage
Dominica · Day 1Sylvanie BurtonIt is a call for us to build on that progress, strengthen our cooperation, and deliver the meaningful change that our people expect from us.
A fundamental question that one must ask is, can the international system still deliver?
For Dominica, this is not an abstract question.
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Secretary-General of the United Nations · Day 1António GuterresFor decades, Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer and cashed in on the consequences.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits.
Compare that with just $34 billion in international public adaptation finance for developing countries in the latest year reported.
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Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick HerminieIt is unreasonable to expect nations safeguarding vast oceanic domains with modest budgets to meet standards set by heavily resourced states without providing them the tools to do so.
Resilience without resources is not resilience.
It is merely survival.
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United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius NdejembiThese ambitions may not be realized if the international financial architecture is not made to work for development.
Currently, when developing countries are accelerating progress, they are restricted by high borrowing costs, rising debt burdens, and limited access to affordable long-term financing.
Tanzania stresses that improvements must be made to ensure expansion of concessional financing, mobilization of private investment, improved access to development and climate finance, and giving developing countries a stronger voice in the global financial decision-making.
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Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip ErdoğanDistinguished members, We all derive our livelihood and the source of our life from nature.
But our world stands on the threshold of serious environmental and climate-related threats.
Air, water and soil, and also many living species, are being affected by climate change.
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Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada BioDeveloping nations must help shape the standards that will govern technologies affecting their people.
Climate change presents the same moral question in harsher form.
Who benefits?
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Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr ZhaparovToday, they have largely dried up.
For us, this example must serve as a clear warning.
Taking this opportunity, I officially call upon the United Nations, international financial institutions, and donor countries to support our initiative to establish under the auspice of the organization the special joint trust fund for the preservation of Lake Issyk-Kul.
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Angola · Day 1João Manuel Gonçalves LourençoThese challenges are inherently complex and further exacerbated by climate change, which has a severe impact on Africa with severe and prolonged droughts, floods, desertification, food insecurity and population displacement.
This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries.
Today, peoples and nations have an opportunity to make a qualitative leap in their overall living conditions through fair financing mechanisms for development and tools provided by artificial intelligence in order to improve education, health, agriculture, public service, scientific research and economic productivity.
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Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-SimonsHigh forested and low deforestation countries like Suriname should not first have to lose forests before climate finance institutions recognize the value of protecting them.
Conservation costs cannot be borne only by the countries protecting ecosystems whose benefits are shared globally.
So I will continue my plea for just and effective climate finance.
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Morocco · Day 1Nasser BouritaThis effort has extended to the African continent, which suffers from the devastating effects of climate change.
The Royal Initiative to establish three African Climate Commissions for the Congo Basin, the Sahel region, and the African Island States has generated promising momentum to strengthen African climate action and coordination among the states of the continent in addressing these challenges.
However, addressing climate change cannot rely on national effort alone.
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