Keeping promises: helping developing nations prepare for climate change

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Dr Barbara Buchner, global managing director of Climate Policy Initiative, tells Chris Seekings about the urgent need to raise climate finance for developing nations, and how far we are from the US$100bn goal

At the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, rich countries agreed to provide US$100bn in climate finance to poorer nations each year by 2020 to help them deal with the loss and damage caused by

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