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Conflict-ravaged Yemen unlikely to benefit from the new climate fund
A child’s shoe and clothes are left at a site of Saudi-led air strikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday March 26,2022.

CONFLICT-RAVAGED Yemen is unlikely to receive any support from the new climate fund agreed at Cop27, according to aid agencies.

The United Nations climate conference in Egypt, which ended on Sunday, agreed to set up a new fund to help poor, vulnerable countries hit hard by climate change.

But although Yemen is one of the world’s poorest countries  and vulnerable to climate change impacts, it does not have the means to access climate finance.

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