TALKS in Marrakech may not deliver a substantial boost to international funding to help poorer countries cope with the effects of climate change Dames Nike Air Vapormax KPU TPU Roze Wit Nederland , negotiators and development charities fear.


A ministerial dialogue at the talks yesterday yielded little beyond a few pledges from European countries to adaptation funds set up under UN negotiations, they said.


Developing countries have made consistent and impassioned pleas in Marrakech for more financing to help them adjust to intensifying climate shifts — but so far those pleas have largely fallen on deaf ears, representatives said.


Frank Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji Heren Nike Air VaporMax Wit Nederland , spoke of the “terrifying new era we face because of climate change.” A powerful cyclone this year wiped out a fifth of his country’s GDP.


Fiji needs access to finance so it can adapt to climate change by strengthening homes and infrastructure, burying power lines and relocating people, he said.


He said the current level of international finance for poorer nations was “woefully inadequate.”


According to a recent “roadmap” from wealthy nations outlining how they will mobilize the annual US$100 billion in overall funding they have promised by 2020, the amount allocated for adaptation in 2013 and 2014 was almost US$10 billion per year Heren Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Grijs Nederland , or around 16 percent of the total.


The donors’ roadmap projects that the amount of international funding for adaptation will at least double by 2020. But that would still fall well short of the “balance” in funding between adaptation measures and emissions-cutting steps recommended in the accord crafted in Paris last year.


“Doubling is not enough,” said Lutz Weischer, of thinktank Germanwatch. “We need to scale it up much more aggressively.”


Developing countries want a quadrupling of adaptation funding, and had hoped rich states would respond to that call at the talks in Morocco Heren Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Grijs Wit Nederland , which end today.


Negotiations on the issue continued yesterday, amid disagreement over the strength