(VOVWORLD) - The Paris climate summit opened on Thursday gathering global leaders and experts to pin down a roadmap for easing the debt burdens of low-income countries while freeing up more funds for climate financing.
Many of the topics on the agenda take up suggestions from a group of developing countries ranging from debt relief to climate finance.
Though binding decisions are not expected, officials involved in the summit’s planning said that some strong commitments should be made about financing poor countries.
The Global Climate Risk Index 2021, conducted by research group Germanwatch, shows that Puerto Rico and Myanmar were hardest hit by extreme weather events between 2000 and 2019.
They were followed by Haiti, the Philippines, Mozambique, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, and Nepal.