Scotland ‘must help poorest countries’
The Scottish Government should increase its fund to help the world's poorest countries deal with climate change, according to campaigners.
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, a coalition of 55 charities and campaign groups including Oxfam, say the climate justice fund has been frozen at £3 million a year since 2016.
As Glasgow is hosting the United Nation sc limate change conference COP26 next year, they say the host nation should lead the way in helping poorer countries adapt to climate change and pay compensation for the irreversible damage caused.
It comes as Oxfam releases a report saying wealthy countries are over-reporting the true value of their climate change aid to developing countries by billions of dollars.
Jamie Livingstone, head of Ox fam Scotland, said: "The time is well and truly up for wealthy countries who think that it's acceptable to respond to the global climate emergency by simply making vague vows to cut their own emissions while using creative accounting to dodge their responsibility.
"The Scottish Government must seize the chance to show that Scotland will not abandon those being hardest hit by climate change to their fate, instead we will significantly increase the amount of financial sup - port we give poor countries and encourage others to do likewise.
"Doing so now, well ahead of the global climate talks in Glasgow, would send a powerful message to a watching world that climate change is not just a matter of science, technology or economics, it is a matter of justice."