Greenpeace: EU is trying to get away with leaving a tip - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Greenpeace: EU is trying to get away with leaving a tip - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009: "Greenpeace: EU is trying to get away with leaving a tip
Greenpeace and Oxfam International criticize the EU Commission for not being ready to pay Europe’s share of the climate bill.
Marianne Bom 11/09/2009 15:40
It is not enough. EU has to pay more than 15 billion euro (22 billion US dollars) a year to developing countries to fight climate change and its consequences, Greenpeace and Oxfam International agreed in their comments on the EU Commission’s financing proposal, published yesterday.

'The EU is trying to get away with leaving a tip rather than paying its share of the bill to protect the planet's climate,' Greenpeace campaigner Joris den Blanken said to Reuters.

Elise Ford, head of Oxfam International's Brussels office, noted in the Financial Times that the proposal would 'in effect, rob tomorrow's hospitals and schools in developing countries to pay for them to tackle climate change now'.

The 15 billion euro is the maximum proposed by the Commission’s proposal that ranges from two billion euro to 15 billion euro. At the presentation, the Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas stressed that 'the level of funding will depend on how ambitious the Copenhagen agreement turns out to be.' EU wants the developing countries to rein in t"