Cancun Green Fund to dominate global climate finance

James S Murray
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UN climate secretariat to appoint transitional committee to begin work on new fund

Work will begin immediately on the formation of a Green Climate Fund after the Cancun Accords granted the UN climate secretariat powers to appoint a new committee to lay the foundations for the centralised...

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