Afghanistan, Nov. 13 -- A ministerial meeting on climate finance was held on Friday, November 13, as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Turkiye, focusing on ways to mobilise financial resources for countries vulnerable to climate change.
The meeting discussed developing countries' access to climate finance, support for climate adaptation programmes, and funding to address the impacts of the climate crisis.
Afghanistan is among the countries highly vulnerable to climate change despite contributing only a small share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Recurrent droughts, water shortages, floods and changing rainfall patterns pose serious challenges to the country's agriculture, water resources and peop...