On the first day of the climate summit in Dubai, a number of countries announced that they will pay large sums into a fund for poor countries. – We have made history here today, said summit leader Sultan al-Jaber when he announced the decision. The money will go to help poor countries that experience damage from climate change. The question of financing the fund for loss and damage has been one of the topics to which great tension has been attached at the climate summit. Now it is essentially resolved before the meeting has started. – This is a very important and good step in the right direction, and a good start to the climate summit. Now it remains to fill the fund with new, fresh funds, and to ensure that this money reaches those who need it most, says senior advisor at the World Wide Fund for Nature WWF Inga Fritzen Buan. Just over 3 billion In total, more than 300 million dollars have been promised – well NOK 3.2 billion to the fund, writes Reuters. This is what is known about how much individual countries will pay in: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is giving $100 million. Germany gives 100 million dollars. The UK provides up to 60 million dollars. The United States provides 17.5 million dollars. Japan gives 10 million dollars. – The US has a significantly greater responsibility for the climate crisis we are facing, so the US should definitely put far more money on the table than the 17 million dollars, says SV’s Lars Haltbrekken. How much Norway will contribute will be known when Jonas Gahr Støre will give Norway’s speech at the summit on Saturday. Adopted last year – It is of course good that you have already got that agreement in place about the fund. But then one can only hope that the rush of victory puts a damper on the work in the coming two weeks, because there is a lot of other important work that remains, says SV’s Lars Haltbrekken. Photo: Dan Robert Larsen / news The creation of a fund for loss and damage to poor countries was decided at the climate summit in Egypt last year. The background for the fund is that it is the rich countries that have been responsible for most of the climate emissions. At the same time, it is in poor countries that global warming is most noticeable. Examples of poor countries being affected are the flood that submerged 30 percent of Pakistan last year and the ongoing flood in Somalia. Last year’s decision did not contain anything about how much money rich countries should pay into the fund. Enormous needs Haltbrekken says that it is important that a fund is put in place where poor countries can cover part of the costs they have for the damage caused by the climate crisis. – It is very important, and it is an important result from the climate summit, because this has been a difficult issue for several years, where poor countries who are least to blame for the climate crisis we are in the middle of are the ones who have to bear the greatest consequences of that the globe is warming, he says. So far, just over NOK 3 billion has been pledged to the fund, although there is reason to believe that more countries will eventually sign up. – It is a big and important victory that the fund has been adopted. We are already seeing the brutal consequences of climate change for countries and people, says Julie Rødje, general manager of SLUG – Network for fair debt policy. In relation to the need to correct the damage caused by climate change, it is still a small amount. According to Julie Rødje, the need to deal with losses and damages as a result of climate change is estimated at 290-580 billion USD by 2030. Annual deviation from global normal temperature compared to the average in the period 1991-2020 +0.5°C compared to normal? Click for explanation normal temperature18801900192019401960198020002020Go to news’s Climate Status Why are most years blue and colder than normal? This is because all years are now compared to a new normal, i.e. the average of weather in the 30-year period 1991-2020. These 30 years have been unusually warm. Most other years are therefore colder than normal. Until recently, researchers used a normal period that ran from 1961-1990. In these years it was relatively cold. It’s been quite a while since the 1960s and the new normal allows us to compare the weather with the climate (normal) that people actually experience today. The normal period is determined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and is used in all countries . In this way, we can compare the weather in Norway with other countries and we can measure changes across the globe. How can you calculate one temperature for the whole world? This number is the result of a complicated calculation. Measurements are made with thermometers both on land and on the sea surface (at sea the thermometers are attached to buoys). In some places the thermometers are close together, in other places they are far apart. Using a statistical method, the researchers are able to give the measurements different weights, so that all areas are equally important: The data used in this graph comes from the American NOAA. They have divided the globe into squares of 5° x 5° and calculate one temperature for each square. Then they can again work their way up to a global figure, for each month or for each year. They can also make figures for the temperature only over the ocean or only over land, or for the northern and southern hemispheres. The lines at the poles are smaller than along the equator due to the curvature of the globe. The researchers also take this into account in their calculations. Others, such as NASA or the Hadley Centre, calculate in slightly different ways than NOAA. Therefore, there are often small differences between the various data sets. In any case, the trend they show is the same: since 1880, the world has become warmer.
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