United Nations: Financial aid to Afghanistan to deal with the climate change crisis is suspended

According to the report of the regional office of Tasnim news agency, the office of the In a statement, the United Nations Office in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced that financial aid to deal with climate change in Afghanistan has been partially suspended and humanitarian aid to this country is also decreasing.

UNAMA added: The voice of Afghan citizens is still not heard in international forums and the Taliban has not yet been able to create an appropriate policy and written governance to access global financial resources.

“Rosa Otenbaeva” head of UNAMA and special representative of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan, in this statement called for the non-political attention of the relevant parties to the climate change crisis in Afghanistan.

This is while the United Nations Climate Change Conference is going on in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, without the presence of a representative from Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Afghan Environment Department had pointed out Afghanistan’s vulnerability to climate change and said that the non-participation of the Afghan representative in this meeting was a “great injustice”. /p>

According to the report published by the International Crisis Group, the organizers of the UN climate change meeting could not find a way to invite this group due to the non-recognition of the Taliban by the countries of the world. find this meeting.

Afghanistan is among the 10 countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters, and this year, for the third year in a row, severe drought experienced the need