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A recent UNDP poll surveyed over 75,000 people in 77 countries on their views on climate change. The following reaction to the poll by Iskander Erzini Vernoit, director at IMAL, was featured in Climate Home News:
Iskander Erzini Vernoit, co-founder of the Morocco-based Imal Initative think-tank, told Climate Home it shows developed countries could give more climate finance without losing domestic support.
“This further demonstrates that there is no leg to stand on for those hiding behind so-called political realism to justify a failure to confront the staggeringly low fiscal ambition from rich countries to support poorer countries with new grant-equivalent climate finance,” he said.