Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the lending nations, a Reuters data analysis found.
Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in economic rewards from a global program meant to help the developing world grapple with the effects of climate change, a Reuters review of U.N. and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development data shows.
The financial gains happen as part of developed nations’ pledge to send $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them reduce emissions and cope with extreme weather. By channeling money from the program back into their own economies, wealthy countries contradict the widely embraced concept that they should compensate poorer ones for their long-term pollution that fueled climate change, more than a dozen climate finance analysts, activists, and former climate officials and negotiators told Reuters.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/who-are-the-1-the-answer-might-surprise-you/
It’s not like voters flock to green parties & candidates either, let alone those who’d be willing to go to the extreme measures that we’d actually need to go through to even have a chance at “fixing” this mess. This type of talk is just another form of finger pointing to push their own responsibility away, because quite frankly, the majority of people in the West are very comfortable with the status quo and don’t want to be directly affected by such measures. You can’t just blame everything on disinformation, big companies, politicians and billionaires - especially now that everyone should know better anyway. And no, there’s no “gentle policy” way out of this at this point.