Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World, released ahead of the opening of the UN conference on climate change in Bali next week, estimated that by 2015, a minimum of $40bn would be needed for poverty alleviation in the face of climate change, while several billion more will be needed for infrastructure, and for disaster mitigation caused by global warming.
That's a tiny fraction of the amount people at TJN think is salted away in less than transparent tax havens. It's less than a day's petty cash in the world's economy. Yet the difference it could make is that of life and death for many people.
Sometimes when thinking about ethics, it's worth getting some perspective.
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