EU nations to commit 3 billion US dollars to climate fund

The leaders of Britain and France say EU leaders will commit more than 2 billion euro (3 billion US dollars) a year to help poorer parts of the world combat global warming

The leaders of Britain and France say EU leaders will commit more than 2 billion euro (3 billion US dollars) a year to help poorer parts of the world combat global warming. Britain´s Gordon Brown and France´s Nicolas Sarkozy said their two countries would contribute a big part of that sum and they are trying to get the full 27-member European Union to pitch in more at a summit in Brussels ending Friday.

EU leaders failed Thursday to come up with a firm figure for the fund. The money is meant as short-term help for poor countries, particularly in Africa, to start cutting emissions and shoring up against the effects of global warming. The European money is a bid to bolster international climate talks in Copenhagen aiming at a longer-term pact.

Source: COP15

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