At this month’s climate talks in Scotland, a lot of time was spent condemning the shortage of money available to fight global warming. Some of the loudest complaints came from less developed nations that are suffering its most extreme effects. Wealthy countries whose emissions are most responsible for the global catastrophe are providing far-too-little cash to help them address its increasingly disastrous consequences, they said. After many hours of often fraught discussions, the Glasgow climate pact ended up including language that urges developed nations to “at least double their collective provision of climate finance for adaptation” to developing countries by 2025. That would mean that rich countries should make available $40 billion in adaptation funding, according to numbers crunched by Carbon Brief , in the next three years. It’s clearly not enough (and ever so unlikely to happen if recent history is any indication). In a recent report, the […]