The water and environment minister Hon. Ephraim Kamuntu stated that developed countries should honor their pledge of contributing funds towards climate change mitigation to developing countries which contribution has not been honored.

The minister, who attended a high level meeting of ministers at the UN in New York, says Uganda reminded countries like China, USA, Japan among others that are leading in polluting the environment to fund mitigation programmes in developing countries like Uganda adding that Uganda among other growing countries contribute less than 4% towards global warming and need to be helped to save the environment.

The minister also continues to say that climate change effects have got a huge negative impact on the country’s economy thus the need to be addressed.