Norway's development minister talks global distrust, climate funding

If there’s one thing that keeps Anne Beathe Tvinnereim up at night, it's that global “distrust is growing,” said the Norwegian international development minister.

In a briefing to journalists this week, Tvinnereim expressed concern at the prospect of lower-income countries, particularly in Africa, being left out of discussions in Western capitals — as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to soak up governments’ bandwidth — and losing faith in the multilateralism as a result. Trust in the international system has already taken a battering from inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and failures to act on climate change, among other issues.

But Tvinnereim, a politician clearly in command of her brief, also thinks some countries are also “fueling that distrust” — and made no bones about which.

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