Are corruption and global warming two sides of the same coin?

The international community has to reflect on whether, as a condition of supporting the newly created ‘climate funds’ proposed at COP27, donor and recipient governments should be required to become members of the new International Anti-Corruption Court.

Demonstrators march in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 11. COP27 concluded that vast increases in financial support are needed both to cover the costs of ‘loss and damage’ poorer countries have incurred as a result of warming, as well as the costs of converting their economies to clean technologies. Photograph by Oliver Kornblihtt/Mídia NINJA

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

December 12, 2022

Though far from achieving the policy measures that it should have produced for societies to avoid catastrophic tipping points from global warming, the recently completed COP27 conference in Egypt did nonetheless manage to highlight the magnitude of the financial flows requir...

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