[p2p-research] BBC NEWS | EU proposes climate risk billions

[Paul D. Fernhout]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8248474.stm
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The European Commission says the EU should provide $2-15bn each year to help 
poor countries protect themselves against impacts of climate change. The UN 
estimates that poor nations will need about $100bn (£60bn) per year for 
climate adaptation, with much of that coming from levies on carbon trading. 
... Campaign groups say the sums are less than the EU ought to be spending.
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Should not some of that go to support peer-to-peer activities creating an 
open commons of ideas and technologies that materially poor countries can 
all draw from and contribute to, to help make those changes? Things like 
Appropedia?
   http://www.appropedia.org/
"Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, 
poverty reduction and international development. Appropedia helps us sustain 
our world. Learn more at our Mission page. "

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/