Are rich nations breaking their promise on climate finance?

Madeleine Cuff
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Falling levels of investment in clean energy threatens crucial 2020 climate finance target, warns Bloomberg New Energy Finance

After the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and her team at the UN climate change secretariat faced an uphill struggle to rebuild trust in the...

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