Denmark announced it has given 100 million Danish krone, or roughly $13.4 million, to support the loss and damage fund for climate change.
Representatives for the country announced the funding as the United Nations General Assembly began in New York City Tuesday.
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Flemming Moller Mortensen, the development minister for Denmark, said in a statement that it is unfair the world’s poorest nations have to pay for climate change related incidents despite contributing the least to pollution.
The funds are aimed at helping relieve damage caused by climate change and working to mitigate climate-related disasters from happening, according to the Danish press release.
Denmark becomes the first U.N. member state to contribute to loss and damage funding. Scotland, which is not a U.N. member independently, announced it would provide to the fund last November.
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Climate change is expected to be a key topic at this week’s U.N. General Assembly.
