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FarCenter

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Fri Oct-30-09 05:00 PM
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EU strikes climate funding deal

Source: BBC

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".

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8334146.stm

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xc8mip

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Fri Oct-30-09 08:05 PM
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1. crazy stuff

Edited on Fri Oct-30-09 08:06 PM by xc8mip

paying bribes to politicians instead of direct funding to manual planting of the trees. Almost every country on earth have good environmental laws but main problem is nothing more but selective enforcement ."Paying with paper for nothing" still will make some people feel good but not improve environment

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