The EU supports two initiatives to improve aid to climate vulnerable countries

The EU supports in the COP28 two initiatives to increase funding and commitment to humanitarian assistance in the countries most affected by the climatic events extremes, which will worsen as the global temperature continue to increase.

The European commissioner for crisis management, Janez Lenarcic, expressed the EU’s support for the Charter on Financing and Risk Management, an initiative launched this Sunday at the climate summit in Dubai that sets out a series of principles to improve the response in countries most affected by the climate crisis and to anticipate natural disasters.

“We will move to act before disasters to reduce risks, adapt, anticipate disasters when possible and ensure that funds arrive as soon as necessary”the signatories promise in the letter.

The signatory countries also commit to collaborate in long-term planning to ensure “coherent and coordinated financing between climate change adaptation, development and the disaster risk management cycle.”

Likewise, they say that they will maximize their efforts to streamline aid and make it more reliable and better targeted.

On the other hand, they propose improving service delivery systems “so that the most exposed communities and the most marginalized people, including those threatened or affected by conflict and fragile situations, receive timely help before, during and after disasters.”

Another principle is to put local and people-based approaches at the center, rely on government leadership and achieve greater participation of local actors and systems.

The document was presented on the same day that the Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace was launched, signed by 70 governments and 39 organizations – including the EU – and which focuses on climate financing for environments highly vulnerable and fragile.

These hundred signatory parties offered immediate support to the most vulnerable countries and communities and to those operating in environments “fragile and conflict-affected to cope with shocks” and climate stressors.

“Climate change affects us all, but not all of us equally. “In fragile and conflict-affected environments, extreme weather events affect three times as many people annually as in other countries.”commented COP28 Director General Al Suwaidi.

“Despite this, people living in extremely fragile states receive a fraction – up to 80 times less – of climate finance compared to those living in non-fragile states.””he added.