Climate crisis funds not reaching countries in need, senior UN official says

Rich countries pledged at a UN summit in 2009 to give low-income states $100bn a year by 2020 to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Photograph: Dong Jianghui/Xinhua/Alamy

The UN’s humanitarian chief has questioned why billions of dollars pledged to tackle the climate crisis have not been used to fight famine in Somalia.

Martin Griffiths said he did not know where the promised $100bn (£87bn) a year to fight the impact of global heating in poorer countries had gone, and called for greater transparency around climate finance.