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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By William James

COP27: Future climate cash must come from bigger group of nations, says Germany

FILE PHOTO: Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action sits next to Sanaa Seif, sister of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah as they attend a talk at the German Pavilion at the COP27 climate summit in Red Sea resort at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

The list of countries who pay towards helping poorer countries cope with climate change should be updated, Germany's climate envoy said on Friday, indicating that countries like China should be included to reflect their economic growth.

In 2009, developed countries promised that by 2020 they would transfer $100 billion per year to vulnerable states hit by increasingly severe climate-linked impacts and disasters. That goal is expected to be reached next year, three years late.

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