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France promises $1bn for climate change fund at UN summit
Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:42
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France promised $1bn to a near-empty climate change fund for poor countries on Tuesday and called for the establishment of a new green economy in the first concrete result of a milestone United Nations summit.
The pledge came on a day of impassioned speeches from some 120 presidents and prime ministers – as well as a cameo by the actor and now UN ambassador Leonardo DiCaprio – telling the summit they had wasted precious time and now needed to deal urgently with climate change.
Both China and America, the world’s two biggest emitters, pledged their support for a climate deal, without offering specifics …. http://www.theguardian.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/09/france-promises-1bn-for-climate-change.html
