Climate change: New Zealand to quadruple climate cash for poor countries to $1.3 billion

No one doubts the affects, I believe we are going to 8.5, will have a 5-600mm sea level rise by the time children born today die of old age but how much do you think this 100 Billion dollar fund is going to reduce global warming because all I see is low hanging fruit of investments. You think helping poor countries like this is going to somehow lower their emissions? I don't, I think this will have zero impact on reductions but help them produce more product.

NZ is the top per capita in the world in culminative emissions according to this.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change

Why not, if global warming really were the thing that was going to be the thing that was affected the most that the money was invested in these countries the most?

I realise culminative emissions is unfair as so much is exported but still, in a country with so much hydro and wind why continue with fossil fuelled cars instead of giving money to people who don't even have cars yet.....Because govts around the world will lose money from fuel taxes, no govt wants to have less money coming in, this 1.3 Billion could be spent on wind power but then that reduces your electricity bill and the GST collected and no govt really wants you to have lower costs as it means less money for them.

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