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"We can look the others in the eye," said the president of the European Commission, "we Europeans have done our job." But to critics, that job may look only half-done. EU leaders have agreed that developing nations would need $150bn a year to tackle climate change and pledged they would pay ...
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EU strikes climate funding deal
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... the possibility of a deal at the Copenhagen summit would be a lot less likely ." Mr Brown also announced a "fast track" scheme to reduce carbon emissions. This would come in soon after the Copenhagen summit and would cost 5bn to 7bn euros immediately, to come from all richer countries . He insisted that all these funding targets would be conditional on other richer countries making funding offers and on developing countries showing how they would spend the money . Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8334146.stm
E.U. Agrees to Pre-Copenhagen Deal
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The EU has agreed a conditional deal on how to help other nations fight global warming, ahead of a key climate summit, but set no figure on what it would pay.
The EU agreed climate change would need 100bn euros ($148bn; £90bn) a year by 2020, and would pay its “fair share”, conditional on other nations.
UK PM Gordon Brown said the deal, which came after a deadlock on cost sharing was broken, was a “bold proposal”.
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