Kelly Gallagher says necessary to look for new creative solutions on climate finance

The upcoming COP will be primarily focused on climate finance, Kelly Gallagher, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, told journalists, according to Report's correspondent from Tbilisi.

"And so Azerbaijan has a very important role to play in the presidency to make sure that we arrive at a positive decision on the national quantified, sorry, what is it called, the national," she noted.

In this sense she noted the importance of looking for new creative solutions on climate finance.

"So it's not only operationalizing the existing funds, but we also need each country to think about what they can contribute to global finance. So that can be done through meeting this new quantified goal, but it also could be done through nationally determined financial contributions," she said.