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Poor Nations Stiffed on Climate Pledges

Billions in promised cash unaccounted for

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 25, 2009 4:28 AM CST

(Newser) – Huge sums of money promised by EU countries to help poor nations cope with climate change have melted away faster than Arctic ice. The EU and five other industrialized nations promised developing countries $410 million a year in the 2001 Bonn declaration, but the UN...   Read full story »

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