2009Sept30: If temperatures rise 2C, then climate change adaptation efforts will cost developing countries $75-100 billion per year starting in 2010, according to a World Bank study. “For poor countries, [the costs] are unacceptably high. International public financial support for adaptation in the poorest developing countries should be new and additional, so as not to jeopardise the Millennium Development Goals,” said Bert Koenders, the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation (BBC).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8282308.stm
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