Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in the news complaining about U.S. President Donald Trump not sending more U.S. taxpayer dollars to the UN Green Climate Fund.
A look at Green Climate Fund spending, however, shows Ki-moon has no reason to complain; the Green Climate Fund is wasting U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The Green Climate Fund was created under the Paris climate agreement that former president Barack Obama supported but declined to send to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
Despite no binding U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, Obama pledged $3 billion to the fund, distributing $1 billion to the fund before leaving office.
Hillary Clinton promised more Green Climate Fund distributions as part of her 2016 presidential campaign.
Upon taking office in January 2017, however, president Donald Trump has declined to send any more of Obama’s pledged money to the Fund.
“With the U.S. pullout of this (Paris) climate agreement, we are not sure whether $100 billion by 2020 will be met,” Ki-moon told Reuters.
“I am deeply concerned that the GCF – while it has been really trying to work – has not been fully funded,” Ki-moon added.
Money from the Green Climate Fund, however, has been disbursed for highly questionable projects, even if one believes dubious global warming predictions.
For example, a $50 million Green Climate Fund spending program in Ethiopia is called “Responding to the Increasing Risk of Drought: Building Gender-responsive Resilience of the Most Vulnerable Communities.”
Focusing on ‘gender justice,’ the UN emphasizes that “Over 50% of the beneficiaries will be women.”
Forgetting for the moment the appropriateness of directing climate dollars to a gender-justice agenda, there is clearly no need for the program.
While the program emphasizes drought vulnerability, global warming is not bringing drought to Ethiopia. Instead, global warming is bringing ideal climate conditions reflected in satellite images showing a dramatic greening of Ethiopia.
NASA satellite data shows substantial greening during recent decades across much of the earth. “Carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect,” NASA reports.
Warmer temperatures and more favorable precipitation explain much of the rest, according to NASA.
Global greening is especially dramatic in Ethiopia. Satellite images show a greater than 30-percent increase in foliage throughout much of the country since 1982.
Climate-related drought programs in Ethiopia appear, therefore, to be a waste of Green Climate Fund (and U.S. taxpayer) dollars.
The Ethiopia boondoggle is just one of many under the Green Climate Fund. Stay tuned for more updates.
Read more at CFACT
Why don’t old K-Weird Moon do us all a nice big favor and go beat there head against the wall until their brains come out their ears if there is one thing we need to do its to dump there UN is the dumpster with the rest of the rubbish
Wait till Ka -Boom has to send $500 million back to the USA which was stolen from tax payers prior to Obama leaving . Now there is something even Sleepy Sessions should be able to handle . Congress did not approve this fraudulent rip off of tax payers .
Send the money back Moon beam and maybe they won’t charge you compound interest . Guaranteed they blew a very big chunk on “administration ” .
Yes Moon it is a safe bet the climates fever won’t be cooled with USA cash .
Talk to Mr.Dress Up in Canada . Tell him your feelings are hurt and guaranteed
you’ll get your loot .
This article touches a number of issues. The graph showing the contributions by the US, Russia, China, and India is one. One of the reasons so many people are upset with President Trump is he took the big sugar daddy, the US, out of the picture.
It is true that there are nations where women are treated very poorly and this needs fixing. However, spending money on project that benefits more women than men isn’t going to fix anything and is either gross incompetence, corruption, or both. In addition, what does this have to do with the climate? It is an example of the many hidden agendas in the climate change movement.
The green climate fund was basically a bribe to get the support of the developing nations for international action to reduce emissions. From the very beginning many including myself knew that the funding would fall short by a large margin. I find it astounding that there was ever a point where anyone thought that the funding would come true.
Have we reached a tipping point, a global greening point of no return? Cool!
When it come to sharing the American Pie the Greens don’t want a fair share they wan the whole thing