Climate Finance and Afghanistan: A Question of Whether, Not How

Aug 24, 2026 | Assem Mayar
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Every discussion of climate finance in Afghanistan eventually collides with a question that is rarely asked out loud: should this country receive climate finance at all? Everything else—how the money should flow, what it should fund, which region should be prioritized—is downstream of that first question. And as long as it remains unanswered, or answered only through silence and inaction, the rest of the conversation is largely academic.