Brown and Meles to chair UN climate financing taskforce

James S Murray
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New advisory group to report ahead of Mexico Summit on climate financing proposals, such as an international Tobin Tax or levy on aviation and shipping

The UN has today attempted to breathe fresh life into faltering international climate change negotiations with the formation of a new high-level advisory group on climate financing that will investigate...

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