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Aid We demand that governments enact the following policies and take the necessary steps to work together with our fellow people to collectively solve climate change. • Implement efficient green technologies in countries, and provide civilians with the skills to use them. • Ensure transparency and communication between governments receiving and donating aid. • Ensure aid comprises a variety of types, including monetary, knowledge transfer, and technologies. The young people of today have come to an agreement that the only way to combat climate change is as a collective. Whether it be a developing or a developed country, the following policies should be implemented in order to make every nation as ecologically friendly as possible. The policies we propose aim to address the current challenges we face in terms of international aid, such as insufficient aid to developing countries to combat climate change, the corruption of governments receiving aid leading to the misuse of funds, and monetary aid leading to short-term benefits rather than long-term benefits. Additionally, there is a lack of communication between donor countries and local communities about what their needs are and how the issues may best be solved. Young people all across the world agree that in order to build a sustainable future, countries with abundant resources have a responsibility to aid countries lacking the resources to deal with climate change. Such responsibilities from wealthy countries include providing the necessary funds to meet the goals of developing countries, as well as providing the necessary skills to implement these goals. This should involve, for example, sending experts to transfer crucial technological expertise to local citizens. By providing the skills that local people need to independently solve local issues, donor governments can promote long-term resilience as opposed to short-term monetary aid. Another added benefit to the transfer of non-monetary aid includes preventing the misuse of donated funds by the receiving governments. "For Ghana, international aid is crucial to some extent, as the government does not have the resources or proper management to deal with the issue of climate change alone." (Ghana) "We need to provide green and sustainable resources that countries can easily manage and maintain in the long run depending on their needs and not our perceptions of what they should have." (USA)

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