The United States is reportedly hindering a critical United Nations conference on funding developing nations’ struggle against global warming.
The US, which has abandoned the Paris Agreement, has tabled a proposal at the conference in the Thai capital Bangkok with the backing from Japan and Australia, seeking to remove rules on how countries account for their climate action funding, AFP reported Saturday citing “multiple sources close to the negotiations.”
According to the report, the issue of how those funds are made available to impoverished nations has emerged as a major stumbling block at the Bangkok conference, which has made little progress since it opened on Tuesday.
The report further cites a senior climate negotiator as saying that the US delegation in Bangkok was “poisoning” negotiations intended to establish a clear roadmap to implement what nations agreed to in the landmark Paris Accord on climate change.
