Bonn/Berlin, November 11, 2024 Over the last year, global temperature records have been broken, for months now southern Africa has been suffering the worst drought for decades, and in South Sudan, 1.4 million people have been affected by devastating floods. Climate change, along with armed conflicts, is one of the greatest drivers of hunger, pushing the number of people going hungry up to around 733 million. Women and girls suffer worst from hunger and the consequences of climate change, as the current Global Hunger Index shows.
However, the distribution of funds is extremely unfair. While around 90 percent of climate funding go to the countries with the highest incomes; low-income countries only receive ten percent for adjustment measures. Furthermore, less than three percent of climate funding over recent years has been going to the lowest-income countries, although these countries are demonstrably the most severely affected by the consequences of climate change, despite barely having contributed to the phenomenon.
