{"id":395680,"date":"2019-02-09T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-haiti-climate-aid-comes-with-strings-attached\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:08:19","slug":"in-haiti-climate-aid-comes-with-strings-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-haiti-climate-aid-comes-with-strings-attached\/","title":{"rendered":"In Haiti, Climate Aid Comes With Strings Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/counter.theconversation.com\/content\/108652\/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-advanced\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/04\/why-is-haiti-vulnerable-to-natural-hazards-and-disasters\">no people<\/a><span> <\/span>know better than Haitians just how dangerous, destructive and destabilizing climate change can be.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti \u2013 which had not yet recovered from a massive 2010 earthquake when<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/caring-for-haitian-women-after-hurricane-matthew-what-we-learned-from-the-2010-earthquake-66799\">Hurricane Matthew<\/a><span> <\/span>killed perhaps a thousand people and caused a cholera outbreak in 2016 \u2013 is one of the world\u2019s<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/climate-change-vulnerability-index-2017\">most vulnerable countries<\/a><span> <\/span>to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods and droughts will become worse as the planet warms.<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/presscenter\/pressreleases\/2017\/09\/18\/small-island-nations-at-the-frontline-of-climate-action-.html\">Island nations<\/a><span> <\/span>are expected to be among the hardest hit by those and other impacts of a changing climate, like shoreline erosion.<\/p>\n<p>For poor island countries like Haiti,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/sites\/www.oxfam.org\/files\/rr-climate-change-resilience-haiti-260314-en.pdf\">studies show<\/a>, the economic costs, infrastructural damage and loss of human life<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.germanwatch.org\/sites\/germanwatch.org\/files\/Global%20Climate%20Risk%20Index%202019_2.pdf\">is already overwhelming<\/a>. And scientists expect it will only get worse.<\/p>\n<p>To help Haiti address this pending crisis, international donors have stepped in with funding for climate action. The problem with that system, as I found in a<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/environment.harvard.edu\/events\/2018-11-05-173000-2018-11-05-184500\/addressing-climate-change-haiti-are-current-actions\">recent analysis of international climate aid in Haiti<\/a>, is that the money may not be going where it\u2019s most needed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_wrapper\" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"banner-247295\" class=\"banner subscribe-banner  banner-247295 bottom vert custom-banners-theme-default_style\" style=\"\"><a class=\"custom_banners_big_link\" href=\"#\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_caption\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_inner\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_text\" style=\"\">\n<p><strong>Stay in the loop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never miss the news and analysis you care about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Extreme Vulnerability<\/h2>\n<p>Though Haiti\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions amount cumulatively to<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatelinks.org\/sites\/default\/files\/asset\/document\/Haiti%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20rev%2010%2008%2016_Final.pdf\">less than 0.03 percent of global carbon emissions<\/a>, it is a full participant in<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/haiti-submits-its-climate-action-plan-ahead-of-2015-paris-agreement\">the 2015 Paris climate agreement<\/a><span> <\/span>and has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emission by 5 percent by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>To meet that goal, Haitian officials say, the Caribbean country must switch 1 million traditional light bulbs for more efficient LED bulbs, grow 137,500 hectares of new forest and shift 47 percent of its electricity generation to renewable sources. Those are just a few objectives in Haiti\u2019s<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www4.unfccc.int\/sites\/submissions\/INDC\/Published%20Documents\/Haiti\/1\/CPDN_Republique%20d'Haiti.pdf\">2015-2030 climate plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It needs help to meet them.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti is among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Nearly 60 percent of the population lives on less than US$2.41 per day, according to<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/haiti\/overview\">the country\u2019s 2012 household survey<\/a>, the most recent poverty data available.<\/p>\n<p>More than<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/haitis-troubled-path-development\">20 percent of its&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/in-haiti-climate-aid-comes-with-strings-attached\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no people know better than Haitians just how dangerous, destructive and destabilizing climate change can be. Haiti \u2013 which had not yet recovered from a massive 2010 earthquake when Hurricane Matthew killed perhaps a thousand people and caused a cholera outbreak in 2016 \u2013 is one of the world\u2019s most vulnerable countries to climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}