The executive secretary of UNEP, the UN environmental agency, said this in a speech at Chatham House. For Stiell "the leadership of the G20 must be at the center of the solution", because "the G20 emissions are around 80% of global ones" "A leap forward in climate finance this year is both essential and entirely achievable," he said.
"It is time to move these dollars from the energy and infrastructure of the past to those of a cleaner and more resilient future", said Stiella. “The next two years are essential to saving our planet.” said the UNEP secretary -. “We still have a chance to bring down greenhouse gas emissions with a new generation of national climate plans. But we need these stronger plans now’, he said, adding that “we must agree on a new objective for climate finance that meets the needs of developing countries’”. The G7 governments are the key shareholders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.