South Africa and Australia appointed co-chairs of Green Climate Fund

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Crucial meeting gets under way with appointment of South Africa’s Zaheer Fakir and Australia's Ewen McDonald

After a series of delays, the first meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) kicked off yesterday in Geneva with the appointment of representatives from Australia and South Africa as co-chairs of the...

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