Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) aims and accomplishments. COP 15 D&C days takes place from 11 to 14 December at the D R Byen, Copenhagen. The event provides opportunities to share information on negotiations and development adaptation issues.
Yvo de Boer, who runs the UNFCCC secretariat, laid out clearly where we are with agreement on the text in his inimitable laconic style: ‘We are near to the end of putting things in and near to the beginning of taking things out.’
Amid the debates swirling round this conference with cyclonic intensity is one very big question: how can the world’s most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change with such a serious shortfall in targeted funding? Oxfam estimates the task as demanding US$50 billion a year — some US$49 billion more than what’s actually available.
