By 2020, the amount of funding to support the fight against climate change will double to $6 billion, the president of the Asian Development Bank said. World leaders gathering in New York this weekend are expected to announce commitments to more than a dozen sustainable development goals. With China, a world emissions leader, planning to lead the announcements, ADB President Takehiko Nakao said the growing Asian economies have a major role to play in the fight against climate change. “Nowhere is tackling climate change more critical than in Asia and the Pacific, where rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and weather extremes like floods and droughts are damaging livelihoods and taking far too many lives,” he said in a statement. Nakao […]