{"id":5502,"date":"2023-02-17T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/congress-offers-1-billion-for-climate-aid-falling-short-of-bidens-pledge"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:18","slug":"congress-offers-1-billion-for-climate-aid-falling-short-of-bidens-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/congress-offers-1-billion-for-climate-aid-falling-short-of-bidens-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress offers $1 billion for climate aid, falling short of Biden\u2019s pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c4de2c1b-89f5-b06d-a2f6-539266962a22_1673959151.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Congress has proposed $1 billion to help poor countries cope with climate change, a figure that falls significantly short of President Biden\u2019s promise that the United States will spend $11.4 billion annually by 2024 to ensure developing nations can transition to clean energy and adapt to a warming planet.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The money is part of a sprawling $1.7 trillion government spending package that lawmakers made public early Tuesday and are expected to vote on this week.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cThe U.S. is the world\u2019s largest historical emitter, and on a per-capita basis the U.S. remains one of the biggest carbon polluters,\u201d said Mohamed Adow, the founder and director of Power Shift Africa, a group that aims to mobilize climate action across the continent. He called the U.S. funding levels \u201chugely disappointing\u201d and said they showed a disregard for the United Nations climate body that established by global consensus ways to help poor nations.<br\/><br\/>\u201cThe U.S. has promised much in terms of climate finance over the years but it\u2019s failed to deliver on many of these promises,\u201d Mr. Adow said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has proposed $1 billion to help poor countries cope with climate change, a figure that falls significantly short of President Biden\u2019s promise that the United States will spend $11.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-finance"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}