US, Canada, Australia and UK Accused of Falling Short on UN Climate Funding

Conference participants walk through an illuminated tunnel at the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 8, 2022. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The U.S., Canada, Australia and the UK have been accused of failing to meet their United Nations pledge for climate change funding.

According to a report by Carbon Brief, a UK-based think tank, the United States fell short of providing its “fair share” of the funding by $49 billion (US $32 billion),  while other countries like Australia did not pay $2.6 billion (US $1.7 billion) of the UN’s $155 billion (US $100 billion) finance target.